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What's up with that. I just received an email from Tony on a topic that has baffled me. Your thoughts???

Tony,

I hear you on this one. I took the Republic for a few weeks earlier this year and cancelled it because of that. I ran into the same story. Let your local paper know that you don't want you newspaper is a plastic bag - especially in Phoenix where we get over 320 days per year of sunshine.

Greg

Greg, Thanks for your article in the Republic about plastic bags, etc. Are you aware of the irony that the newspaper carrying your article--the AZ Republic--was delivered in an unnecessary plastic bag? I've written to the Republic a number of times to complain. Their reply is "recycle them at your local grocery store." This is an evasion of responsibility on their part. Anyway, my local grocery stores no longer accept plastic bags for recycling.

Thanks for your concern. Tony Chambers

As the concerns about the polycarbonate bottles mount we have been looking at what we as a company will do. Articles like the one below have fired concerns about what is really happening to our health as we consume liquids from all plastic bottles. I personally believe in what one of my professors in grad school taught - Prudent Avoidance. If there is some question about the safety of something like a plastic bottle...don't use it. There are plenty of solutions in the stainless steel realm and you can also reuse a glass bottle.

"Worries about hormone-mimicking BPA used in sports bottles led a major Canadian retailer to remove Nalgene and other polycarbonate plastic containers from store shelves in early December. BPA—or bisphenol A—mimics the effects of estrogen in cells and some researchers and environmentalists revealed it can be toxic and cause several types of cancer (breast and prostate) as well as developmental, neural, behavioral, and reproductive harm (miscarriages and other reproductive failures), and obesity and hyperactivity in animals. Fred vom Saal, professor of biology at the University of Missouri and one of the study’s chief authors said the panel reviewed 700 published articles on BPA, practically all published in the last 10 years, yet US health and environmental regulators “are pretending they’re still in the dark.”" Read more>>>