Cool Gel Pack Recycling

Thermogard gel ice packs can be used over and over again we recommend reusing these for picnics camping trips sports events or whenever you need to keep something cool.

Cool gel pack recycling. The gel inside the ice packs is nontoxic so throwing them away is. The gel inside the ice packs is nontoxic so throwing them away is technically an option. These are the ones you ll want to hold on to and reuse. Our ice packs last twice as long as bags of ice and are far less messy with no water leakage or damage to your chilled items.

Second are gel ice packs that can be cut open and poured down the drain or even in your compost. I also suggest asking your service for whatever you are getting numerous gel packs to investigate the ones with cotton there is no name provided through sunbasket. Lastly are the ice packs that are not made of recyclable materials. Sunbasket uses cool gel packs that have only water and cotton even non gmo so their gel is fully compostable and i am tempted to switch to them.

Flexikold ice pack standard reusable gel cold pack for first aid sports injuries pain relief and cold therapy 36 8 cm x 26 5 cm 7 697 see product details. Use scissors to cut a small corner and empty gel contents into the trash before recycling this 4 plastic pack. To recycle your blue apron packaging visit our recycling page for detailed instructions on recycling each item at home. If you figure that each box contains about three meals and two six pound ice packs that s a staggering 192 000 tons of freezer pack waste every year from blue apron alone.

For example sun basket uses an ice pack that is 98 water and 2 non gmo cotton. But in this eco friendly environment in which restaurants are ditching plastic straws and composting is cool there are ways to save the ice packs from a landfill.