Kind of a rant — I drink water and flavored-water beverages, and I don’t wanna buy 24-packs of water and trust my local municipality to recycle. Maybe they do, maybe they don’t. Either way, it’s not recycle, it’s “reduce, reuse, recycle.” I’ll drink a Gatorade (Zero) and reuse it a few times and then toss it.
But if I want a reusable bottle — there’s one by Aladdin (Thermos) I like, and one by Zojirushi, I’ve bought two of each over the years. Just tossed the Zojirushi. Zojirushi is a Japanese brand, very high quality, but a bit over-engineered. It’s got this rubber gasket and plug that, you can clean them daily, they get black spots. Not sure if it’s mould or what, but it’s kinda gross and I don’t like it. The Aladdin/Thermos one is a bit better, didn’t think there was any mould anywhere until I dropped it, the cap flew out, mould farm inside! Nowhere that touched the beverage so that was nice. But I’m kinda done with both of them. I would rather just waste plastic than risk drinking from a mouldy reusable cup.
Are there reusable bottles that aren’t mould farms?
flip top stainless growler, get a bunch of extra gaskets and rotate them. I put them in the dishwasher in the cutlery tray that has a lid to keep things from flying out, then boil them submerged under a stainless trivet to get any smells out.
the bottles I just use soap and a brush and if it smells like anything after that then PBW or oxy powder.
bottles with straws, slide seals, the other type of flip lid, hollow lids, etc will inevitably have unwashable areas that will get nasty.
runner up is this. they fit the same opening
it looks like they dont sell the growler flip any more but I bought several for my klean kanteen knockoff (unintentional kkk) standard size bottles too.