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Jenna Jambeck, the University of Georgia professor of environmental engineering who helped create systems to track plastic pollution, has been named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow for 2022.
She is one of 25 people to receive the honor, often referred to as a “MacArthur Genius Grant.” Each fellow also receives an $800,000 “no-strings-attached” cash award.
Jambeck has been involved in tracking marine plastics for decades. Her team developed the Circularity Assessment Protocol as a “rigorous, cost-effective toolkit” to reveal how plastic “flows into a community, how it is consumed, and how it flows out, either through waste management or via leakages into the environment,” the foundation wrote.
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