Goals For 2020

This is a week after 1st January 2020, but I thought I would post anyway. I don't normally do new year resolutions, because setting too specific goals means you automatically break them, then it's no fun anymore because you fail at whatever the thing was by definition. That being said, I thought I would set a couple of less-specific goals. The main goal I have is to use less plastic. I thought this would be a good idea because I take issue with plastic being used for unnecessary things like packaging. The things get used once then thrown away because they can't be recycled for any number of reasons, meaning they end up in land-fill sites and in the ocean, so being consumed by everyone in the sea from fish to birds and for all we know it could stop plants from growing in the ocean. Of course there are acceptions and some peaple do keep and reuse things made from plastic. Until plastic was used in so many packaged and otherwise disposable products, it was never designed as far as I know to only be used once, but to stay around which is in fact what it does. So I want to buy as little in plastic as possible this year. The only acception being if someone gives me something or if I already have it. The other thing I want to try and do is to buy fewer teakeaways. This will save money as well as creating less waste. If I do get takeaway food, I want to try and remember to take my own container(s). Speaking of plastic, I did a quick calculation and if I went shopping and got 1 plastic bag per week, I would be paying about £5.20 per year minimum. Of course I would probably buy than more than 1 bag of food2 so in that case if I got 2 bags a week it would be £10.40. This doesn't sound like a lot, but perhaps it is to some people. In practical terms, these goals mean doing more of what I was doing in the first place and making food myself and remembering to take my own food when I go out or take my bamboo cutlery set, stainless-steel flask and a reusable mug, or taking some cloth shopping bags when I go shopping. I'll also continue using bars of soap shampoo and conditioner and the bamboo toothbrushes etc. Speaking of toothbrushes, I'm pleased the set I got in November last year came in cardboard packaging if they had to be packaged in anything. I think the goal of buying fewer takeaways will be rather tested soon, especially when I go to America, where I'm told eating out or ordering stuff to be delivered is quite a thing people do there. Still let's see how it goes.