Is anyone recycling food service cold packs?

Question

Meal kit (Hello Fresh, Blue Apron, etc) packaging is mostly recyclable but the cold packs are generating more than 200,000 tons of landfill waste a year.[1] Those packs seem to contain sodium polyacrylate, which is mostly nontoxic but has a number of better uses than landfill, from flocculant to diapers to chelation.[2]Is anyone thinking of a business to capture and repurpose some of this material?1. https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/06/meal-kit-freezer-packs-blue-apron-hello-fresh/2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_polyacrylate

cinntaile · Accepted Answer

Over here, in an EU country, Hello Fresh uses ice packs. You can water the plants with it afterwards. Lobbying might make more sense than starting a company, it might be why it's not used here. Not that this is an answer to your question though.