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