No- this not a spinoff of Survivor in which the goal is to stay alive without the benefit of a new phone, plastic tooth- and toilet brushes, Tupperware, and laundry baskets. It could be, except reality TV isn’t exactly reality, but the attempts of an Austrian family of five to spend six years trying to avoid contact with any plastic are very real. I’ll leave it to you to decide whether adopting such a lifestyle is worthwhile or not, but at the very least, it provided a group of scientists in Vienna an opportunity to study what happens to people when they scrupulously avoid all contact with plastic products for a period of time. Read more.
