Toxic Bottle Cap Drive

Are you sipping on toxic chemicals?

A boy drinks lemonade, tea, kombucha, an orange drink in the park.

Toxic chemicals called phthalates are in some bottle cap liners, which are used to form a seal against the bottle rim. These bottle cap liners may leave a toxic residue on the bottle rim.

Then, when you take a sip from that bottle, you're drinking that residue—taking a sip of toxic phthalates.

We need YOU to help us figure out which beverage brands are using toxic bottle caps.

Will you send us your bottle caps for lab testing?

INSTRUCTIONS:

  1. Please choose beverages in glass bottles with a variety of caps for testing—see photo (scroll down to view photo on mobile devices) for varieties of caps used with glass bottles.
  2. Take a photo of the bottle that clearly shows the bottle label.
  3. Take another, separate photo that clearly shows the UPC bar code. (See example photos below on mobile, or at right.)
  4. Take off the bottle cap, rinse it in water, let it dry, and then put the cap in a small sandwich or ziploc bag.
  5. Fill out and submit the form below.
  6. When you submit the form, you'll see a unique code on the confirmation page. (Scroll down after submitting to view the confirmation page.) Write down this code on a piece of paper and put the piece of paper in the bag with the bottle cap.
  7. Put the bag containing the cap and unique code in an envelope, and mail all materials to:

Environmental Health Strategy Center
P.O Box 33136
Los Angeles, CA 90033

If you have any questions, please contact Brandon Moore at bmoore@ourhealthyfuture.org.

 

Variety of Glass Bottles (2)
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