SIGG Voluntary Exchange

As an environmental responsible person I avoid using plastic bottles as much as possible. To reduce waste my favorite metal bottles to use is the SIGG brand. SIGG is coated inside with proprietary material that was changed about a year ago. It turns out that the old lining contains the dreaded BPA.

The CEO of SIGG apologizes about keeping this information from customers. He maintains that the lining does not leach BPA into our drinsk but offers a voluntary exchange of bottles made before August 2008. The new lining does not have any BPA.

I myself not too worried about the BPA but since I had some old bottles sitting at home, I thought I'd take advantage of this offer and exchange them.

The bottles can be mailed in or returned at some retailers who also participate in the exchange.
Use these instructions to mail in the bottles. I do not have a complete list of retailers where you may also take your bottles and therefore avoid the shipping cost. However, I do know that Whole Foods participates in this exchange program.

If you do decide to switch out your old bottles for new ones there area few things to keep in mind:

1. The exchange program is only valid until October 31, 2009.
2. You may keep your old bottle caps. This was useful to me since I like the sport bottle caps some SIGG bottles have but Whole Foods only had the loop-style caps.
3. If you mail in your bottles, don't worry about packaging. They'll be recycled so it's OK if they get a few more dents here and there.
   

I hope this information was useful for some.

Green factor: if you exchange your SIGG bottles instead of throwing them out they will be recycled, therefore reducing landfills.

Deal factor: you get longer use out of your bottles by exchanging them. In fact, you could sell them on eBay if you don't want them anymore.