 http://www.fitsugar.com/1573850 This story has been doing the rounds in the US for some time now, featuring on the many backpacking and outdoors related websites over there. But till I first mentioned it on here the other day, I don't seem to have seen that much about this anywhere at all over here in the UK! Yet we import, buy and use a lot of their products over here, and especially for outdoors recreational uses like camping and backpacking indeed. 
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 Am I paranoid? I wonder if this story was started by nalgene to get everyone who has older indestructable bottles that will last a lifetime, probably never requiring replacement even after lots of abuse, to buy one of their new bottles.
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If so then it is not working very well as a new tough marketing strategy there Hayden! You just have to look at he typical comments on the end of the article at the link to see that fact! It is likewise attracting similar general consensus of opinion thoughts, on non-replacement of bottles, upon most other online forum discussions on the change-over of plastics types too! 
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I think maybe for young folk it might well perhaps make a difference as a healthier option for the long run though! As for me I am just now too long in the tooth for the change to make much difference to me in my lifetime still to go, I do feel. So I too will keep on using my bottles that I still have in use right now-till they finally need replacing as normal, eventually.
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 Am I paranoid? I wonder if this story was started by nalgene to get everyone who has older indestructable bottles that will last a lifetime, probably never requiring replacement even after lots of abuse, to buy one of their new bottles.
hmm, wouldn't Nalgene be obliged to replace existing bottles?
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Sadly no, they have in fact given little indication of wishing to replace bottles for customers; either for those who have already only just purchased one of the bottle types to have ceased production, nor for people who have previously bought and are already regularly using the products. I do know of instances with a few bottles seeming to be withdrawn from sale and returned to them for disposal/destruction off shop shelves, I think I read of someplace or other; but not a return full by way of any initiated product recall. Or, at least, I don't know about there being any recalls so far, but it might well be ijust that it has so far not been very widely publicised, if indeed there has been one. And too, it would most likely cover only botles sold in the US there anyways if there were even a recall! They seem to be trying to very much play down the underlying seriousness of just what exactly it is that they have discovered to be the problem of this type of plastic. It is obviously serious enough a situation for them to have acted as they so far obviously reportedly have done; to switching the future manufacturing process of their bottles over to another safer type of plastic though, isn't it!
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http://www.thegreenguide.com/doc/114/nalgene I do know for sure though, that I own a heck of a lot of Lexan composed outdoors bottles and too even cutlery! So I will be monitoring all of this ongoing situation with renewed interest now.
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There are now reports of big retailers in the US pulling the Nalgene bottles affected by this problem off the shelves. Whether that is due to pressure to do with the newly filed court proceedings, or to do with the severity of the supposed safety issues from the suspected 'leeching' of the plastic into the water, is anyones guess really.To some extent this is in fact a common trouble with many types of plastic even in standard water bottles bought at the supermarket anyway, is this proble of plastics ingredients seeping through to the contained water itself. They have for years now been advising people to not re-use plastic bottles for more than a few months at a time, as it was, quite commonly on some tv and in some radio shows I myself have seen or heard.
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