Michelle Klein is currently a researcher at the Section for Packaging and Resource Management at the University of Applied Sciences Campus Wien. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Vienna (2018) and a Master’s degree in Environment and Bio-Resource Management from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (2023). She is currently undertaking a doctoral programme at the Technical University of Vienna in Technical Chemistry with a focus on waste management. Her research interests lie in the areas of sustainability and recyclability of packaging, as well as microplastic exposure.