Most of us re-use mineral water bottles or even soft drink bottles as containers at home or to bring out to offices or simply just to leave a spare bottle of water in the car for just-in-case purposes. Now, before you do this, know that it is especially bad to leave bottles in the car where the bottles are exposed to sunlight and therefore tend to be heated. When the plastic bottles are heated, they release harmful chemicals and they sip into the water. Continuous and excessive consumption of such chemicals can cause the ingestion of carcinogen in the body. For more details of what carcinogen is and how it relates to cancer, you can refer to information shared about it on Wiki.

Having said the above, it is also good news to note that not all plastic bottles or containers are harmful. There are many grades of plastics used to product bottles and containers, and you can actually see the difference by different codes printed on the plastic containers. Most of these codes are found at the bottom of the container or bottle. The code is in the form of a number, from 1 to 7. As an example, the code would normally look like this:

The higher the number, the safer the bottle. Generally, as a rule of thumb, plastic containers with number 7 are safest to use. Most polycarbonate containers are numbered 7 and therefore more recommended than any other types of bottles. These are largely available in the market today from small bottles to large containers, so do yourself a favour and use these instead of re-using the ones you buy drinks in. By all means recyle those bottles by putting them in the recycle bins, but not in your home as re-usable bottles.

If you still do not feel comfortable with the use of plastics, you can always opt for glass containers as this is definitely a better choice than plastic. For parents concerned about their babies’ milk bottles, you can check the numbering at the bottom of the milk bottle too. Most of them should be 7 and are steamer safe for your to regularly sterilise them. There are glass alternatives too even for milk bottles but then again, you might want to consider the practicality and safety of using glass for kids since it’s easily breakable.

Let’s stay well.

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