Product Origins
Made responsibly in China.
From the makers of the Klean Kanteen
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When
we created the very first Klean Kanteen our goal was to promote healthy
living and respect for the environment by giving people an affordable
alternative to plastic bottles.
From the get go, we
shared many of the concerns you, our customers, have expressed about
manufacturing the bottles in China. Before a single bottle was ever
produced, we set in place checks and balances to ensure that our
bottles are produced safely, sustainably and that the people making
Klean Kanteens are treated well and paid fairly.
Klean
Kanteen is a family-owned business and we care for everyone on our
team, from the person who answers your calls in California, to the
welder in China who meticulously joins the parts of each Kanteen. By
manufacturing our bottles in China, we can provide a handcrafted bottle
of exceptional quality at a reasonable price.
For more information, read about our NSF certification and manufacturing process. - We visit our manufacturing facilities several times a year and
perform audits every six months to ensure all of our products are
produced with respect for the environment and that the workers in our
factories are treated well and paid fairly.
We
require fair labor standards, including the ethical treatment of
factory workers, child labor rules, wages and benefits, health and
safety.
The Klean Kanteen is and will continue to be one of the safest and most sustainable beverage containers on the market.
Not
only do we uphold strict design and manufacturing standards at our
factories, we also regularly test the metal in our bottles at a U.S.
lab. Every three to four months the science division of EMSL
Analytical, Inc. tests the elemental composition of metal in Klean
Kanteens for hazardous substances.
Friends of Klean Kanteen
Every social change, every movement, every step toward a better
tomorrow takes shape when people come together and work toward a common
goal. At Klean Kanteen, we celebrate and promote companies,
organizations, and individuals who share our beliefs and philosophies.
We like to think of them as Friends.
Our Friends
include organizations and individuals worldwide who are working to make
a difference, from tiny hometown environmental education programs to
nationally-acclaimed leaders in advocacy for health and environmental
stewardship, music festivals and private companies known world-wide for
their earth-in-mind ways of doing business; our Friends are truly an
inspiring bunch.
At Klean Kanteen, we spend extra time
and resources with some of our non-profit Friends to help get the word
out about issues close to our heart. Through our membership with 1% For The Planet,
we donate 1% of our gross annual sales to environmental conservation
and education efforts of non-profit organizations such as the Breast Cancer Fund,
Healthy Child Healthy World, and Environmental Working Group. We also
aim to spread the word about the great works (and the great challenges)
of our Friends by featuring them on our site.
The
organizations currently featured among Our Friends give an incredible
amount of talent and energy toward their respective causes: the
significant personal and ecological benefits of choosing tap water over
bottled water (Take Back the Tap); development of inspiring connections to Nature and leadership in outdoor environmental education (Yosemite Institutes); and relentless efforts to identify and eliminate environmental causes of disease (Breast Cancer Fund).
We hope you’ll get to know these Friends a little better through our
web site. You may find yourself wanting to know more about them or the
issues they address after this little introduction, or even feel
compelled to strike up a new friendship yourself. That’s great, too.
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