April 22, 2011

BPA-Free 5-Gallon Containers Available

From McClellan Mountain Spring Water

In celebration of Earth Day 2011, McClellan Mountain Spring Water is pleased to announce the availability of Earth-Friendly 5-gallon water containers.

“We now have BPA-free 5 gallon water containers available for our home and office delivery customers,” said McClellan Mountain Spring Water General Manager Christina Holden. “This is another step we are taking to provide our customers with spring water in containers that tread lightly on the environment,” she added.

Since January 2010, the company has been manufacturing 100% biodegradable plastic bottles (8oz, 16.9oz, 20oz and 1.0 liter sizes) at its warehouse and bottling facility in Samoa, CA. During that time, McClellan Mountain Spring Water has produced more than half a million Earth Friendly plastic bottles, which do not contribute to the current plastic pollution problem. McClellan Mountain Spring Water is the only northern California manufacturer of 100% biodegradable plastic bottles.

These bottles start to break down 250 days after disposal. In five years, they become organic, non-toxic biomass. They biodegrade in both aerobic – with oxygen (compost) and anaerobic – without oxygen (landfill) microbial environments.  

“Warehouses, homes, offices and store shelves are not microbial environments and therefore these biodegradable bottles will maintain their strength and shape characteristics,” Holden said.

The additive that makes the bottles biodegradable is added to the PET resin during the “preform” manufacturing process, yet does not change the PET chemistry, and therefore the bottles are also 100% recyclable and compatible with the existing recycling stream.