How to Repurpose your Old BPA-Filled Sigg Water Bottle

After getting over my anger at the news last year that the liners in Sigg water bottles contained BPA, I was conflicted about what to do next. The company offered some kind of replacement program, but I wasn't sure I wanted ours replaced. Their dishonesty about something so central to their reputation was so disheartening to me that I found it difficult to trust them again. So instead of jumping through the necessary hoops to have ours replaced, I just got us different water bottles.

In the meantime, we've had the old ones sitting around on a shelf. I didn't want to throw them into a landfill, but I didn't want to drink out of them. I knew I'd eventually find a purpose for them, and inspiration struck early this spring when Ninna and I were planting the first seedlings: planters! We'd use them to plant a single flower as sort of our own little private eco-protest to Sigg's use of such dangerous materials.

Here's what we did:

1. Drilled two holes in the bottom of the bottle:

2. Filled with dirt and added a couple of seeds: 3. Watered and waited: We're still in the "waiting" stage as we just planted the seeds today. We actually planted two bottles, each with a different flower. I'm really hopeful that they'll grow and do OK in there. We seem to have somewhat green thumbs in this home, so at least one of them should work. Hopefully I'll be posting photos again later this summer with pretty blooms coming out the neck!