Lauren serves as Director of Data Services for NAPCOR, the trade association representing the PET plastic industry in North America. She began contributing research for NAPCOR’s annual reporting in 2012—as a summer intern while completing a Sustainability degree at the University of Rochester—and has grown within the organization ever since. Today her work is concentrated on calculating annual gross and net PET bottle recycling rates for the United States, oversight of an annual PET bale composition audit, and managing life cycle analysis data and projects commissioned by NAPCOR.