epic water filter + nalgene 32 oz hdpe bottle is a great, lightweight filtered drinking water on-demand system
filter pitchers are easy to use and a good safe guard against poor plumbing if you haven't had your home water tested
filter pitchers are easy to use and a good safe guard against poor plumbing if you haven't had your home water tested
https://www.reddit.com/r/Nalgene/comments/wqdgbi/are_nalgene...
Glass or stainless steel would be a better choice (especially for storage).
Glass could also contain lead in contaminants - but actual metallic lead won't end up in the finished product - but lead oxides might well.
Having said that... There are probably many devices in your house or supply chain which deliberately contain lead in double digit percentages. Worry about those before worrying about contamination.
I cycled pulverized lead paint around my alveoli as a kid doing construction and used to bite lead fishing weights when I was very young to make sure they stayed on the line.
Thankfully it is now stored in my skeletal system for future use by my nervous system.
("Measuring the amount of lead (Pb) consumed when drinking from lead crystal glassware. Is it safe?")
"That's why we've taken a layered approach, incorporating a variety of high-performance filter media into one powerful filter. Crafted and rigorously tested in the United States, this multi-layered filter is engineered to effectively target both tap water pollutants such as chlorine, microplastics, lead, PFAS, and more, as well as outdoor water contaminants like bacteria, viruses, and microbial cysts like cryptosporidium and giardia."
And the lid and straw itself is also made of plastic. Life is hard and something is better than nothing.
Nalgene bottles are now made exclusively from polyester, which is not subject to post-process fluorination, and even if it were, there would be no reason for a company to spend the money to fluorinate consumer water bottles.
There’s no BPA, but there have been “cousins” of BPA created that essentially are just as, if not more, harmful
But how are those minerals being sourced, and does that mixture contain lead? Ugh, it never ends.
Only reverse osmosis will do a decent job of removing lead, and even that won't be perfect.