Brita pitchers

[girlygirls3]

I know you mommies out there will have great advice about this I bought a Brita pitcher, concerned about things in the water and thought this would help out, then the more I thought about it... is it bad to store your water in it? I mean, with everything being said about plastic am I filtering out other stuff only to add chemicals from plastic in?

[purple2008]

I'd like to know what others have to say about this as well. We used to use Brita, but as we started eliminating plastics from our kitchen realized that was a big one to have our water sitting in it. For a while I used the Brita to filter our water, then transferred it to a glass pitcher for storage. But that got to be such a hassle, that now we just keep tap in a glass pitcher and have tossed the Brita. I still would prefer filtered, so curious what others suggest.

[Mrs. Cheerful Face]

We too had a Brita and then we found a cool filter at Lehman's the non electric catalogue. Its stainless steel or something, but user friendly. Although it sits on the countertop it keeps the water cool. Check it out! HTH

[leerypolyp]

We switched to a faucet-mounted filter (Culligan) after realizing that the Brita pitcher was polycarbonate, which leaches BPA. I dunno how *much*, but it was coming time to replace the pitcher anyway, so we just got the faucet filter. Yes, it's plastic, but not polycarbonate, and the water doesn't *sit* in it, you know?

[girlygirls3]

I wish I could do a faucet one... but we have the type of faucet where the end comes off to be able to move it around and spray with it. So the Brita does leach BPA then, huh? I'll have to check out the one from Lehman's... wished I'd thought about the plastic before I bought the Brita (and the refill box of 10 filters!!!!!!)

[amnda527]

Originally Posted by girlygirls3

I wish I could do a faucet one... but we have the type of faucet where the end comes off to be able to move it around and spray with it. So the Brita does leach BPA then, huh? I'll have to check out the one from Lehman's... wished I'd thought about the plastic before I bought the Brita (and the refill box of 10 filters!!!!!!)

thats what ebays' for. sell it! after reading all this I think that is what I'm going to end up doing with mine.

[DaughterOfKali]

I have a Culligan (Sears) filter. It's plastic but I don't know what kind it is. I hate the idea of using plastic.

[artemis33]

This has been bugging me too. I've been wanting an under the sink filter - you just have a separate little faucet for the water. There was one rated really high in consumer reports about 3 years ago that is from Sears - I'd have to look it up again - but it was a best buy and less than $100 which I think is pretty good for those.

Haven't done it yet though - we keep talking about moving so I haven't wanted to invest in it.

I might check out the stainless one - that sounds cool!

ETA Is this it?
http://www.lehmans.com/jump.jsp?item...UCT&itemID=148

Looks very neat but it is pretty big - I don't have room in my current kitchen for that! Also a bit $ though I'm sure worth it.

[girlygirls3]

That does look like a nice filter! I don't know if it would fit on my countertop either though My mom was telling me about doing one either under the counter too or I guess putting one in for the whole house in the basement, which I'm thinking of looking into also.

[Ruthla]

I'm still using my Brita filter- at least it gets the chlorine out. I try to minimize my use of plastic, but the Brita pitcher is one holdout. At least the water doesn't sit in the plastic pitcher TOO long because we drink it so fast!

[zmom]

Actually, the Brita pitchers are made out of Styrene Acrylonitrile (SAN), which does NOT leach BPA. Although, they are a clear, hard plastic no components of the Brita pitchers are made of Polycarbonate. (This as confirmed by a Brita customer service rep.)

zmom