Lets revisit one of our older topics that seem to get a lot of attention here at The Mess We Made and all over the world namely the BPA bad plastics.
As you may know by now the Canadian Government official stated that BPA in infant products is toxic and even before they officially announced that lots of retailers started pulling there Bisphenol-a products (plastic nr 7).
So after all that news the last while I still was stuck with some of my old BPA water bottles and what do you do with those?
I heard that some retailers would take them back so I tried. Zellers didn’t take my bottles back but they will exchange baby bottles that contain BPA for once that don’t. Then Canadian Tire the girl there was willing to do it if I had a receipt and that left me to my last visit SportChek the people at SportChek where not really happy that I didn’t have a receipt but they gave me money back for my bottles and gave me store credit for it. They officially only take back bottles that where bought there but that didn’t stop me from trying and no problem for me to get money back for bottles I bought somewhere else.
My advice if you still have some Bisphenol-A containing bottles that you are not using then why not return them so that the stores at least can recycle them for something useful (I hope that is what happens with them).
Helpful Resources:
Canada Bans Plastic Bottles Tied to Health Concerns