Nalgene Bottles
April 22nd, 2005
I’m always thirsty, so I’m always dragging a bottle of water around with me. A few years ago, I bought a narrow-mouth Nalgene bottle because I got tired of losing the caps to my reused Evian bottles and I got tired of the damned things leaking everywhere.
Nalgene bottles come in multiple colors as well as a couple different materials, including (transparent) polycarbonate, (opaque) HDPE and (opaque) LDPE. I got the polycarbonate one.
Three years later, my bottle is still going strong, despite being dropped countless times, being carried upside down in a messenger bag, being thrown on the floor of my car, and otherwise subjected to the daily abuses of being around me.
None of this is news to most people, though, as it seems like every third college student has a Nalgene bottle clipped to their backpack, but I guess there’s a reason for that. They’re super durable, and they don’t leak.
You can get them in all kinds of colors and capacities. I prefer the 32 oz narrow mouth bottle, because it’s easier to drink from than the widemouth bottle without embarassing accidents.
In addition to the ubiquitous college student water bottles, Nalgene makes a variety of other containers including travel bottles, jars, bike bottles, hydration packs, mugs, etc. They even provide replacement caps should you lose yours.
You can even submit an idea for a new Nalgene product.
There’s been some recent press about the possibility that certain kinds of plastics leach chemicals into whatever is contained in them. I’m not sure what I think about that, yet.