Comment · Fri, January 14, 2022 · ND Owner
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NDSocialMedia · 29 points
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TheMerchantofVenice1 · -2 points
Come on mate, the plastic bottle will leech BPA or BPS under hot conditions. I am not slating your products in fact I use a few of your products but as a company specialising in nootropics and health and well being, in general, you should be well aware of the deleterious effects of endocrine disruptors in plastic. Not to mention the harmful effects of plastics on our environment.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
THERE IS NO BPA IN OUR BOTTLES!!!! Our bottles are PETE. BPA is an issue with polycarbonate bottles, not PET-based plastics. It also doesn't exist in HDPE, which is what we use for Natrium and some of the ND products that are susceptible to moisture. The plastics we use literally don't contain it. They are also made here in the United States, and tested to ensure no BPA is in them. BPA is an issue in polycarbonate bottles. It's also mostly an issue with polycarbonate bottles that store liquids at higher temperatures. The BPA can leech into the liquid as the temps rise or as the bottle is exposed to sunlight. Seeing as how we don't put liquids into plastic bottles, and we don't use any polycarbonate, it is not an issue.
The alternative to plastics is glass. That what we used at the very beginning when I started the company. We had to move away from it for multiple reasons. One, we had tons of jars and bottles break in shipping. Shipping carriers are not gentle. They throw the packages around like they are nothing. This resulted in MANY broken jars/bottles, which required complete reships. That's a waste of resources just from lost units. Then you have to consider the weight. It was making packages weigh three times as much! This not only increased the cost of the shipments, which is a sticking point for many consumers, but it also caused a shitload more carbon emissions for the same units. This is because the weight added means more fuel needed, which means more carbon emissions. If you truly care about the environment, then reducing the size and weight of packages is what you should be focused on. That's what we have focused on. You will see many of our smaller sizes in much smaller bottles and jars. The only way to accomplish that is with plastic. If you truly care about the environment, then reducing carbon emissions needs to be priority number one. Till there is a magic lightweight material that can replace them, PETE and HDPE are the way to go for now.