Cold--real COLD, as in single digits--but we have brilliant sunshine along with it. The temperatures should go back up toward "normal" for the rest of the week. That snow, however, will stay around for a while longer.
I found this on Treehugger this morning. Before the pandemic we had gone a long way toward eliminating a lot of plastics. But most of the stores we shop banned our canvas bags on the advice of health officials. Even those stores where the cashiers didn't have to handle the public's bags banned the canvas. At that time the official opinion was that COVID spread by touching surfaces contaminated with the virus. Even after the received wisdom changed to recognize that it actually spread through the air, the stores continued to ban our canvas bags. The plastic bags are never single use for us. We have two cats with two litter boxes that have to be scooped out daily. And lately all of the stores now allow our bags so we are reducing our plastic accumulations. We still have a large number of plastic containers and always get more with our groceries. But we keep those that seal well and use them for our left overs and don't microwave anything we are reheating in the plastic so they are going to last quite a while. I would love it if our supermarkets followed the French rules and eliminated plastic packaging.
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