wow. I am SO glad I bought a camelbak

So - I've been grousing lately about how I want a stainless steel water bottle - my latest reminder was from the Think Outside The Bottle people, who were offering some logo-ed bottles for purchase.

But now...

oh, now.

SIGG, the big name-brand face to the stainless steel water bottle craze, which took off after the fuss over BPA in water bottles like Nalgenes (and prompted me to buy a Camelbak), has apparently been coating the inside of their bottles with... ::drumroll:: BPA!

I saw the story on Salon.com today, and I'm disappointed but not surprised.

One of the biggest challenges for Green Me is that I feel kind of powerless about stuff like this. I just finished reading The Ominvore's Dilemma (a post on that to come!), and it made me feel trapped in the same way this SIGG thing has done. Little ole me is just another block in the wall (like this lady).

I've got bigger personal fish to fry these days, so another Corporate Accountability Scandal doesn't faze me much. Sometimes, all you can do is all you can do.

So you should make a point to do the following: add SIGG to the list of products you don't buy.