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Dining@Large: The dangers or not of plastic water bottles ...

I'm afraid I've let the whole plastic water bottle discussion go for too long without starting its own thread. I think a lot of people would be interested in this. I don't want to just link back because people tend to comment under the old entry , so I'll repeat some of the more salient comments.
My contribution to this discussion is although I know I can and should wash plastic water bottles before I reuse them, the reality is that I usually don't. My bad. Here's how it usually goes: ...
I'm late for tennis and forget to bring water, so I scrounge an old empty water bottle that I got from my holiday lunch that's ended up under the car seat for some reason. It's still a third full of water. Not only do I not wash it out before I fill it from the sink at the tennis club, I don't even pour out the old water. I just top it off because I'm in a hurry. Talk about bacteria. If I'm lucky, it's not a bottle that Gailor actually drank out of first.
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