Each statement: claim → public source → date → evidence label → limitation. Figures are shown separately and never added together.
HISTORICAL REGIONAL MEDIA-REPORTED COUNT · official_source_verified
HISTORICAL (ORF Burgenland, 2017): 9 artificial-turf pitches in Burgenland. Media-reported regional count — not current, not extrapolated nationally, not combined with current regional datasets.
Sources: [1] burgenland.orf.at
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · cte_audit
Current national treatment split for end-of-life synthetic turf (reuse, material recycling, energy recovery, landfill, export): UNKNOWN. Current cross-border EOL flow: UNKNOWN — no destination country is assumed without project-specific evidence.
DOCUMENTED PROJECT-SPECIFIC TURF-INFILL PROCESSING / DEMONSTRATION FACILITY · official_source_verified
IFE Aufbereitungstechnik GmbH (Waidhofen an der Ybbs), primarily a machinery / separation-technology company, physically processed used artificial-turf infill material delivered in multiple Big Bags in its technical centre (Technikum) in March 2026 (municipal report, 3 April 2026). Classification: DOCUMENTED PROJECT-SPECIFIC TURF-INFILL PROCESSING / DEMONSTRATION — not a verified commercial synthetic-turf recycling facility, not a full-field recycler, no annual active processor capacity.
Sources: [1] waidhofen-ybbs.gv.at
PHYSICAL TURF-DERIVED INFILL PROCESSING · official_source_verified
IFE process (March 2026): Step 1 — IFE linear vibrating screen removed artificial-turf fibres / grass blades, leaves, branches and other contaminants, leaving a rubber granulate + sand mix. Step 2 — IFE SORT density separation using vibration + air flow separated the lighter rubber granulate from the heavier sand.
Sources: [1] waidhofen-ybbs.gv.at
PROJECT-SPECIFIC INFILL CLEANING / SEPARATION FOR REUSE · official_source_verified
Output: cleaned rubber granulate + separated sand. The municipal source states that the cleaned rubber granulate could be directly reused as artificial-turf infill. REUSE: YES. Final material recycling: not claimed — the project recovered existing infill for reuse.
Sources: [1] waidhofen-ybbs.gv.at
COMPANY / MUNICIPAL PROJECT CONTEXT · official_source_verified
Municipal reporting states that the IFE artificial-turf processing solution has attracted international interest and that an initial project outside Austria was in preparation. Not converted into commercial installed capacity or a number of active facilities.
Sources: [1] waidhofen-ybbs.gv.at
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · cte_audit
IFE annual synthetic-turf processing capacity: UNKNOWN / NOT APPLICABLE AS A COMMERCIAL FACILITY. Annual turf throughput: UNKNOWN. Project quantity “several Big Bags” — not converted to tonnes, not estimated.
UPSTREAM TYRE RECYCLER / SECONDARY RAW-MATERIAL PRODUCER / ARTIFICIAL-TURF INFILL SUPPLIER · company_reported
KIAS recycles end-of-life tyres. Its recycled rubber has historically been used as artificial-turf infill. CTE does not classify KIAS as an end-of-life synthetic-turf recycler. Company-reported process: old tyres → mechanical separation / granulation → rubber, steel, textile cord; rubber processed into granulate / powder with applications including artificial-turf infill.
Sources: [1] kias-recycling.at [2] kias-recycling.at
COMPANY-REPORTED TYRE-RECYCLING CAPACITY · company_reported
KIAS publicly reports processing up to 30,000 t/year of END-OF-LIFE TYRES at Ohlsdorf — COMPANY-REPORTED TYRE-RECYCLING CAPACITY. Not synthetic-turf recycling capacity; excluded from Austrian turf capacity, CTE recycler capacity, turf-derived throughput and processor counts.
Sources: [1] kias-recycling.at
TYRE-RECYCLING OUTPUT FRACTIONS · company_reported
KIAS tyre-recycling output fractions as described by the company (approx.): rubber ~65%, steel 20–25%, textile cord 10–15%. Different company publications give slightly different historic percentages; not normalised or averaged. These are tyre fractions, not synthetic-turf material fractions.
Sources: [1] kias-recycling.at
COMPANY REGISTER RECORD · official_source_verified
Operator KIAS Recycling GmbH, Unterthalham Straße 2, 4694 Ohlsdorf, Austria (official company-register record). Tyre-recycling site — not shown on the synthetic-turf recycler map.
Sources: [1] evi.gv.at
FEDERAL PUBLIC DATA-GAP STATEMENT · official_source_verified
Austrian Federal Ministry, Aktionsplan Mikroplastik 2022–2025: “In Österreich ist derzeit die Datenlage über Kunstrasenplätze noch stark eingeschränkt.” The national data basis on artificial-turf pitches in Austria is officially described as strongly limited.
Sources: [1] bmluk.gv.at
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · cte_audit
CTE has not identified a currently active Austrian fixed full-field synthetic-turf recycling facility that meets the CTE public-evidence standard. Active verified commercial part-stream turf processors: 0. Active verified commercial infill processors: 0. 0 verified is not proof that none exist.
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · cte_audit
No CTE national tonnage model is published for Austria v1.0 — no verified national pitch-stock or area input. The older backend model is archived and not publicly displayed.
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · cte_audit
Austria currently lacks a complete publicly verified national dataset for artificial-turf pitch stock, end-of-life volume, treatment routes and recycling throughput. CTE therefore reports these values as UNKNOWN rather than extrapolating from regional datasets. National pitch count, area, measured EOL tonnage, annual replacement count, material-recycling throughput and capacity: UNKNOWN.
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · cte_audit
Landscape, hybrid and leisure / recreational artificial-turf stock, EOL tonnage and recycling routes in Austria: UNKNOWN; not derived from sports infrastructure. Generic European microplastic-emission values are not converted into an Austria-wide measured emission.
SPORT-SPECIFIC FACILITY LIST · official_source_verified
Hockey Austria publishes a list of artificial-turf hockey facilities, showing artificial-turf use outside football. Not merged into football counts; no national turf-area estimate.
Sources: [1] hockey.at
FEDERAL POLICY CONTEXT · official_source_verified
The federal microplastics action plan identifies the phase-out of plastic granulate in artificial turf as a microplastics policy area. It notes that synthetic granulate is used as infill on some artificial-turf surfaces, that recycled tyre granulate has historically been widely used, that systems without synthetic infill or with organic/mineral alternatives already exist, and that some Austrian Länder had stopped subsidising artificial-turf systems using rubber granulate. Not a nationwide prohibition; Länder policies are not identical; existing rubber-filled pitches are not illegal.
Sources: [1] bmluk.gv.at
EU REGULATORY CONTEXT · official_source_verified
Austria is subject to EU Regulation 2023/2055: intentionally added microplastics in products are restricted / prohibited under EU REACH, including applications related to artificial turf; placing polymeric artificial-turf infill on the market becomes prohibited after the transition period ending in 2031. This is not a ban on artificial turf in Austria and existing pitches need not be removed in 2031.
Sources: [1] umweltbundesamt.at
REGIONAL TYROL DATA · official_source_verified
REGIONAL TYROL DATA (Tiroler Umweltanwaltschaft position paper): Tyrol had 279 football pitches, of which 49 were artificial-turf pitches. Regional only — not extrapolated to Austria, not multiplied by population, no national estimate.
Sources: [1] tiroler-umweltanwaltschaft.gv.at
REGIONAL HISTORICAL INFRASTRUCTURE DATA · official_source_verified
The Tiroler Sportstätten Strategieplan 2020 contains district-level football pitch and artificial-turf counts for Tyrol — regional historical infrastructure data, not summed into a national Austrian figure.
Sources: [1] tirol.gv.at
CURRENT REGIONAL OPEN DATA SOURCE · official_source_verified
Land Tirol publishes an open sports-facility dataset (data.gv.at) including facility type and surface type, among them Kunstrasen. Regional context only — no national total derived.
Sources: [1] qs.data.gv.at
CTE TAXONOMY RULE · cte_audit
Installers, contractors and suppliers (e.g. STRABAG Sportstättenbau, Sportbau HL, AustroGreen, ResiGrass, TTE / Zahrer) are not classified as recyclers without physical processing evidence. Building, renovating, maintaining, specifying recyclable products, using recycled input or removing old turf does not equal physical material recycling.
SPORTS-CONSTRUCTION / CONTRACTOR · company_reported
STRABAG Austria (Sportstättenbau) is a sports-construction contractor whose public claims focus on recycling, resource conservation, circularity, sustainable artificial turf and natural infill. No approved source demonstrates a dedicated physical end-of-life synthetic-turf recycling facility — not recycler infrastructure.
Sources: [1] strabag.at
CIRCULAR PRODUCT / DESIGN-FOR-RECYCLING ACTOR · company_reported
TTE describes artificial-turf systems with natural sand or sand/cork infill, a recycled PE-based supporting system, demountability and possible reuse/recycling of system components. Classification: CIRCULAR PRODUCT / DESIGN-FOR-RECYCLING ACTOR — not an end-of-life synthetic-turf recycler; no recycler pin.
Sources: [1] tte.at
HISTORICAL MUNICIPAL INFRASTRUCTURE / INVESTMENT CLAIM · official_source_verified
HISTORICAL (City of Vienna, 2010): Vienna reported having renovated 60 artificial-turf pitches in the preceding programme context. 60 renovations ≠ 60 total artificial-turf pitches in Vienna in 2010 or today.
Sources: [1] presse.wien.gv.at
CURRENT MUNICIPAL INFRASTRUCTURE / POLICY EXAMPLE · official_source_verified
City of Vienna: ongoing sports-facility renovation uses artificial turf without microplastic infill. Vienna-level practice — not national Austrian regulation.
Sources: [1] wien.gv.at
CURRENT MUNICIPAL SPORT-INFRASTRUCTURE CONTEXT · official_source_verified
City of Vienna reports renovation of artificial-turf pitches, five additional pitches constructed in the relevant legislative period and an investment of approximately €18.7 million in the programme. No national pitch stock, EOL volume or recycling throughput is derived.
Sources: [1] wien.gv.at
