The founder of Carbon Fiber Recycling, Doug Griffin started out in the recycling business in Bethel, CT. Doug has always had a strong commitment to recycling and to keep waste out of landfills.  Anything that he came across on worksites and demolitions, he thought about ways to reuse and potentially breakdown into usable materials.  Doug set up a lab at his recycling plant, experiments and built prototypes and small reactors to recycling all the waste that gets thrown into landfills, from asphalt roofing to plastics, even old toilets where crushed to be used in road building materials.

It was in his lab, where Doug developed a process to recycle carbon fiber, reducing the glues into usable by products, and develop a continuous flow processing system to produce recycled carbon fiber at low cost and in large quantities.  Doug made several prototypes and worked with chemists and engineers to tweak and test his ideas.  By 2018, Doug and his partner Tim decided they had enough experience to build a large recycling plant, and the numbers to make it work.