NEWS COVERAGE: TECH NUGGETS ARTICLE: How the Triton Tie Outlasts Oak

Most of the recycling conversation is stuck on one question: can we ever get recycled plastic clean enough to make packaging again? We think that is the wrong question. Point the same material at the right job and what looks like a flaw becomes the whole advantage.

John Skabardonis of Optimist Consulting recently sat down with Triton Group CEO Greg Janson to see that idea in practice: how Triton takes the mixed, contaminated scrap plastic most recyclers refuse and turns it into a composite railroad tie built to stay in the ground for decades. His piece lands on the line our whole business is built around, buy it by the pound and sell it by the part.

John is a self-described chemist, marketer, speaker, and scientific storyteller. John’s company is Optimist Consulting and he writes the blog Tech Nuggets.

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