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Hydro Flask

Overview Hydro Flask is a company founded in 2009 in Bend, Oregon that markets a line of water bottles, tumblers, coffee flasks, beer growlers, and food flasks. Hydro Flask advertises their vacuum sealed flasks for maintaining temperature and taste as well as providing convenient transport. The brand claims to keep liquids hot for 12 hours and cold for 24 hours.

Sustainability Hydro Flask’s users contribute to sustainability by cutting down on plastic waste produced by disposable plastic water bottles. Disposable bottles lead to an increase in plastic pollution. Americans dispose an estimated 1,500 disposable plastic bottles every second. Reusable water bottles can effectively cut down on this waste.

BPA Hydro Flask does not contain Bisphenal A (BPA) a man-made chemical found in many plastic water bottles. Most people are exposed to harmless amounts of this chemical, however, when at higher rates exposure to BPA can cause including reproductive and developmental effects as well as metabolic disease. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration deemed that frequent exposure can have negative “effects of BPA on the brain, behavior, and prostate glands in fetuses, infants, and young children.”