Comments on: Bigg Bottle Swap! Trade in Your SIGG for a New Bottle! http://www.inhabitots.com/2009/09/04/the-bigg-bottle-swap-trade-in-your-sigg-for-a-new-stainless-steel-bottle/ Sustainable design for the next generation! Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:57:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Jennifer Chaithttp://www.inhabitots.com/2009/09/04/the-bigg-bottle-swap-trade-in-your-sigg-for-a-new-stainless-steel-bottle/comment-page-1/#comment-7727 Jennifer Chait Sat, 05 Sep 2009 18:37:39 +0000 http://www.inhabitots.com/?p=20811#comment-7727 SIGG deserves the criticism. It's very hard for consumers to make green shopping choices. At another green blog of mine I get many emails asking stuff like, "How to sort out the actual safe eco products from the greenwashing ones" and "Why bother with green products - they're not any better than other products." With barely any standards for eco labels, consumers and the people who review products have to muck through a lot of junk just to find out if a green product is living up to what they're saying. A lot of the time you have to depend on the transparency of a company. SIGG knew things that they didn't allow the public to know which is false advertising the fact that they didn't disclose means they were not being as transparent as they could have been. AND they blamed it on a third party so they also refuse to take responsibly. .They committed at least two of the seven sins of greenwashing (http://sinsofgreenwashing.org/findings/the-seven-sins/) before they let people know about the BPA. They criticized and fought with many organizations who accused them of having BPA in their bottle over the years, such as the Organic Consumer Association when they knew all along they did have BPA in their bottles. Many people are already super leery of green products or products that support green living and SIGG just set up folks to be even more leery.IF they felt that BPA was safe they should not have tried to hide the fact that their bottles had it. I'm glad they offer a product that cuts on waste and I'm glad that their bottles didn't leech - or so they say, but overall, companies that make green products look less trustworthy because of their actions are lame and shouldn't be supported. SIGG deserves the criticism. It’s very hard for consumers to make green shopping choices. At another green blog of mine I get many emails asking stuff like, “How to sort out the actual safe eco products from the greenwashing ones” and “Why bother with green products – they’re not any better than other products.” With barely any standards for eco labels, consumers and the people who review products have to muck through a lot of junk just to find out if a green product is living up to what they’re saying. A lot of the time you have to depend on the transparency of a company. SIGG knew things that they didn’t allow the public to know which is false advertising the fact that they didn’t disclose means they were not being as transparent as they could have been. AND they blamed it on a third party so they also refuse to take responsibly. .

They committed at least two of the seven sins of greenwashing (http://sinsofgreenwashing.org/findings/the-seven-sins/) before they let people know about the BPA. They criticized and fought with many organizations who accused them of having BPA in their bottle over the years, such as the Organic Consumer Association when they knew all along they did have BPA in their bottles. Many people are already super leery of green products or products that support green living and SIGG just set up folks to be even more leery.

IF they felt that BPA was safe they should not have tried to hide the fact that their bottles had it. I’m glad they offer a product that cuts on waste and I’m glad that their bottles didn’t leech – or so they say, but overall, companies that make green products look less trustworthy because of their actions are lame and shouldn’t be supported.

]]> By: hlkljgkhttp://www.inhabitots.com/2009/09/04/the-bigg-bottle-swap-trade-in-your-sigg-for-a-new-stainless-steel-bottle/comment-page-1/#comment-7722 hlkljgk Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:28:12 +0000 http://www.inhabitots.com/?p=20811#comment-7722 i really think the negativity toward sigg is a bit unwarranted; they didn't do anything wrong; they never disclosed what their liners were made of and whether bpa was used or not. they DID do extensive testing to ensure there was no leaching of any chemicals - and none was found. it's a great company that has offered a wonderful alternative to disposables and really helped to boost the movement.i really think they deserve more credit. my sigg is old, dented and since they are taking them back and trading for a bottle with the new liner, i'm going to take advantage of that. i really think the negativity toward sigg is a bit unwarranted; they didn’t do anything wrong; they never disclosed what their liners were made of and whether bpa was used or not. they DID do extensive testing to ensure there was no leaching of any chemicals – and none was found. it’s a great company that has offered a wonderful alternative to disposables and really helped to boost the movement.

i really think they deserve more credit. my sigg is old, dented and since they are taking them back and trading for a bottle with the new liner, i’m going to take advantage of that.

]]> By: jrichar7http://www.inhabitots.com/2009/09/04/the-bigg-bottle-swap-trade-in-your-sigg-for-a-new-stainless-steel-bottle/comment-page-1/#comment-7651 jrichar7 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:01:56 +0000 http://www.inhabitots.com/?p=20811#comment-7651 I don't wnat to give Sigg anymore of my hard earned dollars, but I don't want a Chinese made stainless bottle either. I don’t wnat to give Sigg anymore of my hard earned dollars, but I don’t want a Chinese made stainless bottle either.

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