The German-American Steuben Parade is held in New York City every third Saturday in September starting at noon, and runs along Fifth Avenue from 64th Street to 86th Street. For over 50 years, the parade has celebrated the German culture with crazy costumes, floats, music, and dance.
âsomeone discovered that cycling water bottles (or bidons) contained a toxic chemical called BPAâ. I donât think anybody needed to âdiscoverâ it. If I recall correctly, BPA is deliberately added to the plastic to make it less hard and brittle, more squeezy. What was discovered is that BPA can be an estrogen mimic.
So if you leave your plastic water bottles inside of a hot car during the summer, this poison is getting into the water. Here's an ASU study done by us Arizona folks that found that the PET water jugs that people use in Phoenix can leach dangerous levels of this when folk store polyethylene water jugs in their garages.