UdeC signed collaborative alliance to recycle used face masks
Together with the municipality of Concepción and the company Softys, the university seeks to take the collection of mouth covers to an industrial scale, giving them a new use by obtaining their thermoplastic raw material. [...]
Educational establishments join in innovative mask recycling project
It is the educational corporation of the CPC Biobío, which signed an agreement to recycle the masks used by the students of its five technical high schools located in Concepción, Tomé and Coronel. The agreement [...]
Innovative project succeeds in recycling plastic masks into new products
Thanks to a partnership between the public, private and academic worlds, it has been possible to valorize "covid waste", preventing thousands of these protective elements from contaminating beaches, rivers or parks. Coasters, flowerpots and pencil [...]
Solid biofuels and water and odor decontaminating carbons are developed with waste from the olive oil industry.
The oil extraction process generates about 70,000 tons of alperujo, which is organic waste that is currently used directly as fertilizer and to a lesser extent as fuel, due to its high humidity. The Universidad [...]
UdeC academics to develop natural anti-stain for lumber
A from forestry waste, researchers from UDT and the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Oceanography hope to develop, thanks to Fondef Idea funding, a product that keeps wood free of fungi. Dr. Cecilia Fuentealba Becerra, [...]
The Circular Bioeconomy, a new production paradigm
The "petroleum era" will sooner rather than later come to an end and will open the opportunity to move towards a circular and sustainable bioeconomy, in which production is done in an intelligent way and [...]