Patagonia’s feeling burned. In 2005 when the BPA issue started coming up, the company severed ties with all manufacturers who used BPA in their bottles. Sigg assured them that their bottles contained no BPA, and Patagonia moved forward with co-branding their little metal water bottles. Then last week Sigg admitted that all of their water bottles made before August 2008 contained BPA. To top it off, Sigg tried to run an ad in thins months Backpacker and Outside magazines with Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard holding a Sigg bottle. Patagonia protested and Outside yanked the ad while Backpacker declined since they’d already cashed and spent the check. Patagonia announced that they would offer a refund to anyone who’d bought their co-branded Sigg bottles, and said they’d return all unsold Siggs including those made post 2008.

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The story that Patagonia terminated their relationship with Sigg is also nice because it keeps this in the news. I’m sure Sigg was hoping everyone would forget about it over the long weekend.

via Ecorazzi

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