Online - January 16, 2008

Plastic Does Not Make Perfect

Glass Water Bottles

Once upon a time, you wouldn’t be caught dead without a water bottle.

The accessory du jour for the athletic and well hydrated, the label you carried made a statement — natural spring water (hippie dippy), rain water from Tanzania (fancy pants). You lost your mind entirely when you found out about fat-burning, electrolyte-pumping, beauty-inducing kinds. (Wishful thinking, really, but still.)

But now? Hauling around a plastic water bottle is not only passe but blasphemous to the very green lifestyles we purport to be living. Hence the Seletti Italian water bottle, an old-fashioned solution (glass) to a modern problem (global warming).

As an homage to the plastic bottles of yesterday, it has a sporty, bulbous shape, but the glass has a sleekness plastic lacks. Choose from four styles, each of which holds a liter of liquid.

Plus, at just $38 a pop, you’ll start saving monies after refilling it approximately nineteen times.

Go ahead and test the waters.

Available online at lekkerhome.com.