Is it bad to reuse ploastic water bottles?

Question

The ones like dansini are in?

Answer 1

YES BAD YES....

IT'S YOUR CHOICE IF YOU WANT TO GET SICK.......

Answer 2

The PET plastic can degrade and leach bad stuff into your water.  Nalagene make some opaqe plastic waterbottles that don't do this.  You should definatly wash it out every so often.  Every day is paranoid though.

Answer 3

yes, it's bad to reuse plastic bottles. It might cause cancer to you.

Answer 4

Yes.  The bacteria from your mouth will get trapped in the bottle and will grow and could get you sick.  This is the case even if you wash the bottle because the narrow opening dosen't allow you to wash it completely.

This is the case even if you put it in the dishwasher.

Answer 5

No! Some kinda bottles are allowed to use once only

Answer 6

The issue with reusing the plastic bottles pop and bottled water come in isn't bacteria or chemical leeching; it's their cheap material. If you reuse one bottle for a day or two, it's no big deal, but if you continue to reuse it for extended periods, little flakes of plastic come off into the water and you end up drinking them.

If you buy a hard, quality water bottle (such as a Nalgene), then you can reuse for long periods.

Answer 7

yes, because there is moisture and exposure to your lips or other sources of bacteria, that bacteria will grow in/around the mouth of the water bottle. That will contaminate the water you've refilled into the bottle.

Answer 8

oh yes like everyone else is saying the chemicals...blah blah blah besides the chemicals messing you up,This year, Americans will drink more than 30 billion single-serving bottles of water.  

Last year Americans spent nearly $11 billion on over 8 billion gallons of bottled water, and then tossed over 22 billion empty plastic bottles in the trash.

In bottle production alone, the more than 70 million bottles of water consumed each day in the U.S. drain 1.5 million barrels of oil over the course of one year.

thats alot of wates as well. instead use a metal water bottle, save money and you save the planet!!

here is a  link to check out:

http://www.thegreenguide.com/doc/121/bot...

Answer 9

yes, they have chemicals (bad ones) .

lol

Answer 10

Yes, bad chemicals leak into the water eventually.

Answer 11

well if u put them into washingmachine its probably not good but its better to reuse a hard plastic bottle than a soft if u do it because its leaking less plastic.

Answer 12

You can reuse them a few times, but no longer than 2 weeks.  At that point, toxins and chemicals from the plastic start to leak into the water, which is known to increase ones risk of breast cancer.

Answer 13

In part, I think it depends on what you're going to do with them, and how they will be handled.  Although there are lots of people who will say "No, don't do it" because of negative publicity, all of the industry sources I could find stating this turned out to be vested interests; they want you to buy more bottled water.  Personally, I've been washing and re-using PETE bottles for water multiple times without problems; I toss them if the plastic becomes the least bit clouded or discolored, though.  I've also used them extensively for ice packs; I fill the bottles to the top of the straight portion of the side and freeze them, and this provides me with ice packs for my coolers which don't make a big mess of everything inside.  



If you're worried about chemicals leaching into the water from the disposable bottles, it's better not to buy them in the first place; get a more durable reusable bottle, fill it yourself and don't be part of the packaging waste problem at all.

Answer 14

Yes, they are designed for one time use only. The plastic starts to break down after a while.

Answer 15

Yes it is if you're reusing it for drinking purposes. Those plastic bottles aren't meant to be used more than once They are made of this thin type of plastic that can wear away with washing and leak harmful substances into your water.  I recommend using the plastic bottles that were meant to be reused over and over again.

You're free to use plastic bottles to put knick knacks and what not.  :D

Answer 16

yes

Answer 17

yes i saw on the news that bottels that r reused can contain ecoli in it and other bad bacteria so if you are going to reause it wash it with hot water and let it air dry upside down!

Answer 18

Don't listen to these silly responses! People have been using canteens for millenia! Do you actually believe people have been dying all these years because of a few bacteria that wouldn't hurt you anyway???

I reuse plastic water bottles all the time! It certainly makes much more sense than wasting all that plastic and throwing it into the ecosystem!

Of course, once I see algae growing on the insides, it's time to recycle. But even that is a matter of choice! There's lots of algae in crystal fresh mountain streams.

Chill!

Okay, IF you store the water in those plastiic bottles for months or years at a time, yeah, it might leach a LITTLE into the water. But who's gonna do that???