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> Yeah, like all those soaps and mini-shampoo bottles we steal from hotels and intend to "use" someday, too.

No -- you ship the gel packs back to Blue Apron and they reuse them. Reuse >> recycling, BTW.

I just did a back of the envelope calc for the carbon footprint of shipping your gel packs back to them (assuming shipping by truck 2,000km). It's about 300 grams of CO2.

A gallon of gasoline puts about 10kg of CO2 in the air. If you were to drive to the supermarket a mile away, just your trip in the car puts 800g of CO2 in the air (assuming 25 mpg).




Something tells me a proper analysis of the net impact of their propose recycling scheme would be a bit more involved than the two numbers you came up with (and leaving aside such questions of how many customers will actually participate; and the fact that having all those gel packs that have been handled by N customers in the past be send in with my food shipments sounds, well, kind of gross).

That is, at the end of the day, it still sounds -- suspect.




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