I just decided to buy glass bottles. The are nice ones with a removable rubber cover that can nicely go into the dishwasher. And they don't taste or smell like plastic after a while.

I’m working on ousting all plastic foodware from my life if at all possible. Glass, ceramic, metal, or silicone only pls.

It’s slow going, but there’s some wins.

I think it's the heat that done them in. Sometimes, dishwashers have modes that don't use a lot of heat, and I think it might also help to put heat sensitive things in the top rack. But even if you do that, I'm guessing that the kind of plastic that melts in the dishwasher probably won't be safe to drink from, even if it doesn't look like it melted.

Survival of the fittest.

You might wanna stop drinking out of plastic if you can avoid it. If you’re gonna buy a water bottle, you can buy one made out of stainless steel and it’ll survive the dishwasher. Of course you’ll have to make sure you buy a reputable brand, otherwise It’ll be full of lead.

There used to be a show called Street Cents on CBC that focused on consumer and media awareness. On one episode, they torture tested Nalgene bottles.

It's been a while but if I'm remembering right, I watched them survive:

• being thrown off a building
• being run over by a bulldozer
• being dipped in liquid nitrogen and hit with a hammer
• being heated with a blow torch

The lids broke in some of the tests, especially if they had liquid in them, but the bottles themselves are basically indestructible.

I've seen a knock-off bottle break when somebody set a backpack down on it too hard.

Nalgene uses tritan for their plastic bottles btw

Yeah, nothing happens to all of the food containers but my bottles shrivel at a warm bath.

Ha! Almost looks like it returned to the size it was as a blank, before blow molding.

Always look for the "dishwasher safe" logo

haha this reminds me of a pair of flip-flops my wife had. They were left in the car, and one of them somehow ended up in the back window where it got super-heated by the sun. It was curled up and half the size of its mate when I found it. Couldn't tell you what they were made of...

water belongs in a glass

Now you have two bottle blanks. Here's how they're turned into bottles. https://youtu.be/kU_gH36GG58

Yeah I gave up on free swag for exactly this reason. If I have to hand wash it, it’s not free. If I only get one use out of it, it’s worse for the environment than a disposable water bottle. Sometimes “free” is just too expensive

lol I had this happen with one of mine

Some plastic can be remolded because the molecules are long and sleek, others can't (thermoplasts?) because the molecules all attach together like Christmas trees.

I just don’t put any plastic in the dishwasher. I feel like the heat helps leech them into the rest of the items in there. To avoid handwashing, I’ve slowly replaced plastic containers with glass ones.

I just float the water in the air using the Force

This applies to metal ones too. While they won’t shrink, they can be damaged.

I put one of my metal water bottles in and it scraped up the sides quite a bit. Definitely was only meant for hand washing. Didn’t destroy it, but kind of ruined the nice finish it had.

Oooh. Put it in the machine once more? :)