About
Whether a product is truly plastic-free is oddly hard to answer. The carafe is glass, sure — but what about the internal tubing, the lid gasket, the valve you can't see? That information is scattered across reddit threads, manufacturer support replies, and teardown videos. We gather it, verify it, and cite it in one place.
How we rate
We track silicone separately from plastic, because the plastic-free community genuinely splits on whether a silicone gasket counts. Every product lands in one of five tiers, best to worst:
No plastic and no silicone anywhere in the product.
Plastic-free except for silicone parts (gaskets, seals, nipples). Accepted by many, avoided by some.
Contains plastic (housing, handle, exterior) but none of it is in the contact path — it never touches your food, drink, or skin.
Some plastic in the contact path — what touches your food, drink, or skin — but meaningfully less than typical alternatives.
Plastic — or a plastic-based nonstick coating like PTFE — is the main material in the contact path, the same as most mainstream products in this category.
Every claim is sourced
Each product page lists a full component-by-component material breakdown and the sources behind it, tagged by type (manufacturer, reddit, teardown, review) and by how well-verified the claim is — from manufacturer-confirmed down to unverified. If we're not sure, we say so.
Every material named in one of those breakdowns has a page of its own: what it is, whether we count it as plastic, what heat does to it, and how to tell it apart from the lookalike it's sold as.
How we stay independent
Some outbound purchase links are affiliate links, meaning we may earn a small commission if you buy through them, at no extra cost to you. This never influences our ratings or which products we recommend — a product can't buy its way into the picks, and plenty of our top picks are cheap or have no affiliate program at all.
Brands are welcome to send samples for review, but a sample only buys a look, never a rating — we score on the materials in the contact path, sourced the same way for every product. Anything we review from a manufacturer-provided sample is labeled as such on its page, and receiving one never guarantees coverage or a good score.
Scope
We currently recommend 233 products across 64 categories, focused on the everyday things that touch your food, drink, and skin — where plastic exposure actually matters. This is a living project; categories and products are added and re-reviewed over time.
We're not doctors or toxicologists, and materials/formulations change. Treat this as a well-researched starting point and verify anything critical before you buy.