Consider a random walk on $\mathbb{Z}^d$ in a translation-invariant and ergodic random environment and starting from the origin. In this short note, assuming that a quenched invariance principle for the opportunely-rescaled walks holds, we show how to derive an $L^1$-convergence of the corresponding semigroups. We then apply this result to obtain a quenched pathwise hydrodynamic limit for the simple symmetric exclusion process on $\mathbb{Z}^d$, $d\ge 2$, with i.i.d. symmetric nearest-neighbors conductances $ω_{xy}\in [0,\infty)$ only satisfying $$\mathbb{Q}(ω_{xy}>0)>p_c\ ,$$ where $p_c$ is the critical value for bond percolation.