Coverage: Plastic News – How Triton Is Rethinking Recycling

At the 2025 Baerlocher Recycling Summit in Cincinnati, Greg Janson, CEO of Triton Ties, shared a candid view of the plastics recycling market. He argued that U.S. recycling lacks a true foundation because demand for recycled plastics is continually undermined by cheap virgin and wide-spec resin flooding the market. His solution: use recycled plastics in infrastructure.

Rather than trying to force recycled plastics back into their original applications—what he compared to fitting a square peg in a round hole—Janson urged the industry to “reimagine the genius of plastics.” His vision: stop competing with virgin resin and instead build new, durable markets that use recycled plastics for what they are best at—long-lasting, resilient products.

This is where infrastructure comes in. By transforming hard-to-recycle plastics into composite railroad ties and other heavy-duty materials, Triton Ties demonstrates how waste can become the backbone of the next generation of infrastructure—replacing wood, concrete, and steel while diverting plastic from landfills and oceans.

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Source: Plastics News coverage of the 2025 Baerlocher Recycling Summit.