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Title: Plastic Water Containers
Post by: Traveller on June 22, 2016, 09:42:33 AM

Sorry if this has been covered before, I did look.

I have just purchased a few plastic water containers (food grade, BPA free) and just wondered if anyone had a good way of giving them a rinse before we use them. Do you just swill some water around in them, use a bicarb mix, or another solution?

Thanks for any ideas.

Title: Re: Plastic Water Containers
Post by: Talawana5 on June 22, 2016, 10:30:18 AM

Hi Traveller,
We always rinse with a Bi-Carb mix and it has always been successful.
Happy travels.
Cheers

Title: Re: Plastic Water Containers
Post by: edz on June 22, 2016, 10:36:21 AM

I always give ours a good rinse with boiling water and few dessert spoons salt , shook all over the insides then a couple of flushes done the same way, Dont taste any salt after taste .. the Iodine in the salt sterilises the insides along  with the boiling water .. Helps get rid of any plastic tastes a little on new bottles too, Ive found .

Title: Re: Plastic Water Containers
Post by: Burnsy on June 22, 2016, 10:49:24 AM

Bicarb is definitely the go. Works for water tanks as well.

Title: Re: Plastic Water Containers
Post by: Rumpig on June 22, 2016, 11:01:13 AM

Quick rinse with water from the tap, then fill...the chlorine in our water supply should sort any germs out I reckon

Title: Re: Plastic Water Containers
Post by: Joff on June 22, 2016, 11:28:51 AM

Lucky i'm not dead! ???

Title: Re: Plastic Water Containers
Post by: Traveller on June 22, 2016, 11:33:43 AM

Thanks for all the comments folks, looks like I have a bit of rinsing to do.

Good call for us to Joff!

Title: Re: Plastic Water Containers
Post by: GBC on June 22, 2016, 01:34:56 PM

The water tank freshener you buy at the camping/rv centre is 12% sodium hypochlorite solution - household bleach. I use a capful in the camper to prevent algae growing.

Title: Re: Plastic Water Containers
Post by: MDS69 on June 22, 2016, 08:25:35 PM

Never rinsed mine. Just filled them up and used them.

Title: Re: Plastic Water Containers
Post by: Ozplanman on June 23, 2016, 07:19:44 PM

Use sodium metabisulphate, should be able to get it from various stores, maybe chemists, maybe even Woolies where they keep home brew stuff.  Maybe BCF etc. it's a sanitiser, brewers use it to wash out their containers between batches.  Kills all the germs and is non toxic to us. 


We used to wash out our buoyancy compensators when we were diving to kill bugs that may have crept in during oral inflation.


Cheers

Title: Re: Plastic Water Containers
Post by: GBC on June 23, 2016, 09:29:29 PM

Quote from: Ozplanman on June 23, 2016, 07:19:44 PM

Use sodium metabisulphate, should be able to get it from various stores, maybe chemists, maybe even Woolies where they keep home brew stuff.  Maybe BCF etc. it's a sanitiser, brewers use it to wash out their containers between batches.  Kills all the germs and is non toxic to us. 


We used to wash out our buoyancy compensators when we were diving to kill bugs that may have crept in during oral inflation.


Cheers

Its also what all fresh prawns get dipped in so they don't get black spot.

Title: Re: Plastic Water Containers
Post by: Traveller on June 24, 2016, 10:01:58 AM

Thanks again for all the suggestions folks, much appreciated.