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Dr. Taylor Maddalene Myers is a Research Faculty member in the College of Engineering at the University of Georgia and Director of the Circularity Assessment Protocol at the Jambeck Circularity Informatics Lab. Her background is in pollution and waste prevention, marine conservation, and science communication, working on projects around the globe with organizations such as National Geographic, The World Wildlife Fund, and Rare. She served as an Advisor on Plastic Pollution to the Council of Environmental Quality in the Executive Office of the President in 2024 and has been an active member of her home county’s Solid Waste Advisory Committee since 2023, working to ensure that science informs decision-making at all levels of governance. Her current research focuses on the impacts of plastic pollution and tying human behavior and waste management infrastructure on land with what we find in the ocean.