|
|
|
04/29/2006, 02:25 PM
|
#1 |
|
Registered Member
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Boston, MA
Posts: 14
|
Safe Plastics
Hello Fellas:
Quick question. I have heard a lot of chatter about unsafe plastic storage buckets (e.g., for RO/DI top-off water) leaching toxins over time. Short of getting food grade plastics, what should I be on the look out for and what specifically should I avoid? Can someone name a particular brand/model that Lowes/Home Depot typically carries. Thanks in advance. - New Guy |
|
|
|
04/29/2006, 02:43 PM
|
#2 |
|
Premium Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Shawnee, Kansas
Posts: 4,568
|
Rubbermaid Brute Trashcans are food grade and therefore reef grade.
If it has NFS on it, its food grade and good to use for sure. Lots of things are fine to use too though, even if they don't have the NFS. |
|
|
|
|
04/29/2006, 02:57 PM
|
#3 |
|
RC Mod
 
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Posts: 15,225
|
rubbermaid brute is what I use as well. Better to be safe for not much more in price.
__________________
Mark "I got a fever, and the only prescription, is more cowbell" ~ Christopher Walken Current Tank Info: AGE 240 Flatback Hex |
|
|
|
|
04/29/2006, 04:34 PM
|
#4 |
|
Registered Member
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Boston, MA
Posts: 14
|
Good advice... but what is NFS? I would like to use something a little smaller than a trashcan. Preferable something that would fit under/next to the tank. The wife will nix the living room trashcan idea pretty quick. Someday I will have a basement sump and can place funtionality above aesthetics. Thanks again.
|
|
|
|
|
04/29/2006, 06:02 PM
|
#5 |
|
RC Mod
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Posts: 15,225
|
rubbermaid makes butes in all sizes if there is a restaurant supply by you check them out.
NFS = Nutrition and Food Sciences means it has been tested and safe to hold food substances
__________________
Mark "I got a fever, and the only prescription, is more cowbell" ~ Christopher Walken Current Tank Info: AGE 240 Flatback Hex |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
