KMKnowledge

• No approved recycling processes for food contact use at high temperatures
• Barriers to contaminants would lead to more, not less waste
• Recycled plastic is more expensive than virgin
• Detection difficulty could lead to fraud

The deepest location on Earth was reached by Hollywood director James Cameron in a specially designed submarine in 2012. His exploration of the Mariana Trench, in the Pacific Ocean, was as remarkable as scenes from some of his own blockbuster movies.

Cameron and his team worked at a depth of some 11,034 metres, which is equivalent to the height of 2519 stacked double-decker buses, or more than eight times that of Ben Nevis. And their craft had to withstand water pressure of more than eight tons per square inch or about 1000 times the standard atmospheric pressure at sea level.

What has this to do with food packaging you may ask?

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