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Usach Wins National Funding to Advance Scientific Journal Excellence

The National Research and Development Agency (ANID) announced the Scientific Journal Publication Fund 2025 results, a strategic instrument designed to bolster the editorial management, visibility, and consolidation of national academic journals. The fund supports initiatives to optimize editorial workflows, professionalize teams, implement publishing technologies, and scale the scholarly impact of national scientific publications.

Usach Research focuses on recycled post-consumer PET for food packaging

PET is a fully recyclable plastic, which can be processed after use and converted into rPET (recycled PET) to manufacture new products. However, in Chile less than 15% of PET reaches recycling plants to be transformed into rPET, says a report by the Chilean Plastics Industry Association (Asipla). This is clearly illustrated by the low household recycling rate of plastic bottles, which barely reaches 7%.