Introduction

Hello, and welcome to our blog, where we chronicle our adventures through a consumer-driven society with a very interesting restriction on what we allow ourselves to purchase. We are not going to buy anything packaged in plastic this year, unless there is a health risk involved in eschewing a product altogether (such as medication). We have several goals with this project. We are doing this project:

• to gain and create awareness of how pervasive plastic packaging has become.
• to reduce our contribution to the fantastic and unnecessary amount of waste packaging creates.
• to indirectly influence the amount of plastic being introduced into the landfills, and more importantly, into our world.
• to lessen plastic contamination of our foods and beverages.

In preparation, we did a little bit of research and scouting to find out how we could still purchase the things we need and enjoy, without making a lot of sacrifices. Some things are more difficult to find than others, which simply means we need to try a little harder to find solutions that allow us the things we want to or need to have. We're not going to spill the beans on everything we've learned here in the introduction, but we will be sharing our knowledge a lot in other posts on this blog.

This is our journey.