FYI, I just received email confirmation from SIGG w/ a "gift certificate code" to purchase bottles at their on-line store with free shipping.
DE On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Z <xodus48...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I appreciate Grant's willingness to share responsibility for this fiasco. > I do not intend to penalize RBW for this issue. I feel bad for the majority > of the people at SIGG, who took pride in producing a quality product. As > for SIGG, I can't fathom what their corporate leadership were thinking. New > findings of problems w/ existing manufacturing processes are found all the > time. That's part of what moves industry forward. Corporations assess the > info and adjust their methods accordingly. Had SIGG acknowledged > participating in a now-questionable production method that they had > previously believed to be good, and informed the public of their intention > to change, the fallout would have been minimal conpared to what they must > endure now. > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Tim McNamara <tim...@bitstream.net> > *To:* rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com > *Sent:* Friday, September 4, 2009 6:30:14 PM > *Subject:* [RBW] Re: Sick Siggs > > > > On Sep 4, 2009, at 3:23 PM, R Gonet wrote: > > > Apparently Sigg was selling aluminum water bottles with an interior > > coating containing bisphenol, which is supposed to be a bad thing. > > Grant has a post on the RBW site about this, under the Rivendell News > > section. Sigg is replacing these bottles and Grant suggests that you > > send them back to Sigg, but because RBW sold them, Grant is also > > willing to assist in the exchange (read the article for details). > > Grant is apologetic for having sold them - his term is "guilty by > > association" - but RBW was misled by Sigg, too. I would not think of > > returning a bottle to RBW under these circumstances and I give great > > credit to Grant's taking some responsibility, even though I think he > > does not need to. But that's just another example of why we support > > RBW. And I would never buy another Sigg product, to punish them for > > their deception > > > That said, apparently testing showed no leaching of noxious stuff > into liquids in Sigg bottles. At least per the information my wife > has from REI, who sell a lot of these things and is generally a > pretty straight-up company. Now, yes, Sigg was not as forthcoming as > they should have been: > > http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/04/are-sigg-aluminum-bottles-bpa- > free.php > > http://mysigg.com/bulletin/faq.html > > I own no Siggs, my wife (a backpacker) owns a bunch of the things but > I never have reason to use them. > > As for me, the BPA/BPB/etc. issue is less significant than- for > example- the dozen and a half pharmaceuticals that can be found in > our local tap water, along with 3M chemicals from landfills buried > (legally) 50 years ago, mercury contamination in almost all of our > lakes the the fish therein, etc. A mile from my house there are > signs in multiple language to warn people not to eat the fish taken > from the stretch of the Mississippi River that flows through here- > and the river is the cleanest it's been in 40+ years! > > Or, for that matter, check the air quality data for any US > metropolitan area. If you breathe, you're likely breathing in all > sorts of poisons. Ozone, PM2.5 pollutants, etc. > > http://www.airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.main > > Part of why I ride a bike is to minimize my contributions to this > sort of stuff. I'm eyeballing the Mark's Flat Rack add-on for my > Nitto Mini front rack as a way to make getting groceries by bike easier. > > Also, nothing is perfectly safe. Unavoidable fact of life. Somehow > people seem to come to the idea that life is supposed to be risk- > free, but that is impossible. Much of the time the risks are simply > unknown. > > > > > > > -- Cheers, David Redlands, CA "Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There is something wrong with a society that drives a car to workout in a gym." ~Bill Nye, scientist guy --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
