Plastic Water Containers

[Traveller]

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.

[Talawana5]

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

[edz]

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 .

[Burnsy]

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

[Rumpig]

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

[Joff]

Lucky i'm not dead!

[Traveller]

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

Good call for us to Joff!

[GBC]

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.

[MDS69]

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

[Ozplanman]

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

[GBC]

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.

[Traveller]

Thanks again for all the suggestions folks, much appreciated.