Countries

Artificial turf recycling in Lithuania

Recycling infrastructure, regulation, material flows and end-of-life status.

Dataset: FROZEN v1.0Verified: 2026-09-30Sources: 16QA: QA PASSED WITH DOCUMENTED UNKNOWN

Executive snapshot

Lithuania has active artificial-turf infrastructure, an established renovation market and documented second-life turf reuse. However, CTE has not identified a complete current national installed-stock total, measured annual EOL flow, dedicated domestic turf-recycling facility or verified national material-destination split.

Major caveat

LFF competition venues = active-use evidence, not a census; hybrid grass ≠ fully synthetic turf; removal ≠ recycling; second-life reuse ≠ material recycling; J&E's >100,000 m² removed and >200,000 m² installed are cumulative company claims, not annual throughput, capacity or national EOL; J&E's Dutch parent ≠ a verified Lithuania→Netherlands route; tyre recycling (REnotas, Metaloidas, Ekobazė, Raguvilė) ≠ turf recycling.

Evidence status

v1.0 (30 Sep 2026) — national stock, area, EOL tonnage, replacements, capacity, throughput and treatment split UNKNOWN; verified project-specific second-life reuse (Visaginas 2026); 1 removal / renovation actor (J&E Sports Baltic, not a processor); 0 verified turf processors; tyre recyclers excluded

National EOL basis

Verified project-specific reuse (Visaginas 2026, used turf reinstalled); national EOL tonnage and replacements UNKNOWN; 1 removal / renovation actor (J&E Sports Baltic)

Market size & installed base

CURRENT

CURRENT VERIFIED NATIONAL ARTIFICIAL-TURF PITCH COUNT: UNKNOWN · AREA: UNKNOWN. LFF 2026 and 2025 competition schedules identify artificial-turf venues (e.g. Mažeikiai, Kretinga, Visaginas, Naujoji Akmenė, Klaipėda, Jonava, Tauragė) — active-use evidence of a substantial football turf base, not a census. Dariaus ir Girėno stadionas is listed as hybrid grass and kept separate.

HISTORICAL

No historical national stock figure in the approved sources.

MODELLED

No CTE stock model. Previous model archived.

UNKNOWN

Current complete national stock and area; school, municipal, private, landscape and hybrid turf.

End-of-life market

Publicly verified national tonnage

MEASURED NATIONAL EOL TONNAGE: UNKNOWN. COMPLETE NATIONAL ANNUAL REPLACEMENTS: UNKNOWN. Project-specific evidence only: Visaginas 2026 (procurement published 1 Sep 2026) — STREAM A: existing artificial grass removed and transported to a municipality-designated location in Visaginas, final destination UNKNOWN; STREAM B: USED artificial turf supplied by the municipality installed on the pitch — VERIFIED SECOND-LIFE REUSE (not material recycling). The two streams are not merged.

CTE MODEL — PUBLIC INPUTS

No Lithuania EOL model in v1.0 (no venue count × assumed mass ÷ assumed lifetime).

HISTORICAL

Previous CTE desk model archived 30 Sep 2026.

Uncertainty & methodology

Treatment split (reuse, material recycling, energy recovery, disposal, export): UNKNOWN — no chart. Carpet, sand, SBR/EPDM/TPE and other infill destinations: UNKNOWN. Exports and destination countries: UNKNOWN — none inferred from corporate relationships or geography.

Recycling infrastructure

Infrastructure

0 Active full / multi-fraction recycling sites
0 Active part-stream processing sites
0 Active pre-processors (incl. mobile, no fixed site)
0 Historical / closed sites
0 Development / permit projects

Public data availability

Public capacity available: NO

Actual throughput available: NO

Units and system definitions differ between facilities; CTE does not rank or total capacity.

NO CURRENT FIXED LITHUANIAN END-OF-LIFE SYNTHETIC-TURF MATERIAL-RECYCLING FACILITY VERIFIED TO CTE PUBLIC-EVIDENCE STANDARD. Turf-recycler pins: 0. Not pinned: J&E Sports Baltic (removal / renovation actor), REnotas, Metaloidas, Ekobazė, Raguvilė (tyre recyclers), Elega (equipment supplier), LFF and football fields. 0 pins ≠ no circular activity: removal, renovation, second-life reuse and tyre recycling exist, but dedicated turf material recycling is not currently verified.

Facility detail cards

Secondary material market / circular value chain (not recycling infrastructure)

These actors do not physically process end-of-life synthetic turf. They are excluded from recycler counts, the recycler map and capacity figures.

J&E Sports Baltic — ACTIVE TURF REMOVAL / RENOVATION / VALUE-CHAIN ACTOR — NOT A VERIFIED PROCESSOR (cross-border research candidate)
UAB REnotas — END-OF-LIFE TYRE RECYCLER — NOT A SYNTHETIC-TURF RECYCLER
JSC Metaloidas — END-OF-LIFE TYRE RECYCLER — NOT A SYNTHETIC-TURF RECYCLER
Ekobazė — END-OF-LIFE TYRE RECYCLER — NOT A SYNTHETIC-TURF RECYCLER
UAB Raguvilė — END-OF-LIFE TYRE RECYCLER — NOT A SYNTHETIC-TURF RECYCLER
UAB Elega — TYRE-RECYCLING EQUIPMENT SUPPLIER — NOT A TURF PROCESSOR

Material flow

Only steps supported by public evidence are filled. Energy recovery is not material recycling; export and storage are not final destinations.

1. Field
PUBLIC EVIDENCE
LFF active-use venue evidence; complete national stock UNKNOWN.
2. Removal
PUBLIC EVIDENCE
Removal documented at Visaginas 2026; J&E removal activity company-reported; national count UNKNOWN.
3. Infill separation
UNKNOWN
No verified infill separation or processor; destination UNKNOWN.
4. Turf carpet
PUBLIC EVIDENCE
Visaginas: used turf reinstalled (verified reuse); removed old turf destination UNKNOWN.
5. Processing
UNKNOWN
0 verified fixed or mobile turf processors; J&E is a removal / renovation actor.
6. Output fractions
UNKNOWN
No verified material-recycling output fractions.
7. Secondary material
UNKNOWN
Tyre-derived rubber (REnotas, Metaloidas, Ekobazė, Raguvilė) is upstream circularity, not turf recycling.
8. Final destination
UNKNOWN
National destination split and cross-border routes UNKNOWN — high-priority research.

Capacity vs throughput

These categories are never added together: capacity is not throughput, a target is not a realised volume, and historical data is not current data.

KNOWN CAPACITY

CURRENT VERIFIED NATIONAL TURF-RECYCLING CAPACITY: UNKNOWN. J&E annual turf processing capacity: UNKNOWN.

KNOWN THROUGHPUT

CURRENT VERIFIED NATIONAL TURF-RECYCLING THROUGHPUT: UNKNOWN. J&E annual removal and recycling throughput: UNKNOWN.

UNKNOWN THROUGHPUT

J&E >100,000 m² = COMPANY-REPORTED CUMULATIVE TURF REMOVAL EXPERIENCE (not capacity, throughput or annual EOL). No tyre-recycling quantity counts toward turf capacity.

HISTORICAL

No historical Lithuanian turf-recycling facility identified in the approved sources.

TARGETS

No national synthetic-turf recycling target identified.

Regulatory context

LITHUANIA — REGULATORY CONTEXT. The Waste Management Act (Atliekų tvarkymo įstatymas, VIII-787) is the national framework; the version in force at the audit date is consolidated from 1 September 2026 (effective 1–30 Sep 2026). The Ministry of Environment lists the Waste Management Act and Waste Management Rules among core waste legislation. Universal Lithuanian EOL synthetic-turf waste code: NOT ESTABLISHED; 17 02 03 = general plastic / construction-waste context only. Turf-fraction end-of-waste status: NOT GENERALLY VERIFIED. From 17 October 2031, granular polymeric infill for synthetic sports surfaces may no longer be placed on the EU market — not a turf ban.

Data gaps

NO PUBLICLY VERIFIED VALUE AVAILABLE — an unknown is a deliberate evidence status, not a missing page element.

DATA GAPCURRENT COMPLETE NATIONAL STOCK AND AREA — UNKNOWN
DATA GAPMEASURED EOL TONNAGE AND NATIONAL ANNUAL REPLACEMENTS — UNKNOWN
DATA GAPFINAL DESTINATION OF TURF REMOVED AT VISAGINAS — UNKNOWN
DATA GAPDOWNSTREAM DESTINATION OF J&E-REMOVED TURF, SAND AND INFILL — UNKNOWN / HIGH-PRIORITY RESEARCH
DATA GAPFIXED, PART-STREAM, USED-INFILL AND MOBILE TURF PROCESSORS — NONE VERIFIED
DATA GAPNATIONAL TURF CAPACITY / THROUGHPUT — UNKNOWN
DATA GAPTREATMENT SPLIT AND DESTINATIONS OF CARPET, SAND AND INFILL — UNKNOWN
DATA GAPEXPORTS AND CROSS-BORDER ROUTES (incl. Baltic corridor comparison with Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Germany, Netherlands) — UNKNOWN / RESEARCH AFTER COUNTRY 29
DATA GAPLANDSCAPE AND HYBRID TURF — UNKNOWN
DATA GAPUNIVERSAL TURF WASTE CODE — NOT ESTABLISHED; END-OF-WASTE — NOT GENERALLY VERIFIED

Sources

Public source chain (20)PUBLIC SOURCE CHAIN VALIDATED — DATA GAPS REMAIN

Each statement: claim → public source → date → evidence label → limitation. Figures are shown separately and never added together.

CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · unknown
Current measured Lithuanian EOL artificial-turf exports and destinations: UNKNOWN; none inferred from corporate relationships or geography. Cross-border route status: UNKNOWN — HIGH-PRIORITY RESEARCH after Country 29 (J&E downstream destinations; Baltic corridor comparison with Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Germany and the Netherlands — research question only).
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · unknown
National destinations of turf carpet, sand, SBR/EPDM/TPE and other infill: UNKNOWN. National shares of reuse, material recycling, energy recovery, disposal and export: UNKNOWN — no percentage chart.
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · company_reported
Ekobazė describes itself as the largest used-tyre collector and recycler in Lithuania and operates a tyre-granulation line funded through Eco-innovation LT (investment EUR 1.1 million); a planned next stage is equipment to convert rubber granules into rubber mats and playground flooring (future plan). Tyre recycler — not current turf processing.
Sources: [1] ekobaze.eu
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · company_reported
UAB Elega is a tyre-recycling equipment supplier marketing machinery capable of producing crumb rubber — a technology actor, not a turf processor; no recycler pin.
Sources: [1] elega.lt
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · unknown
Current measured national EOL tonnage, complete national annual replacement count, verified turf-recycling capacity, throughput and national treatment split: all UNKNOWN. No Lithuania tonnes/year model in v1.0; the previous CTE desk model is archived.
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · official_source_verified
Lithuania is an EU Member State. From 17 October 2031, granular polymeric infill for synthetic sports surfaces may no longer be placed on the EU market (Regulation (EU) 2023/2055). This is not a turf ban and does not require existing pitches to close or existing rubber infill to be removed.
Sources: [1] eur-lex.europa.eu
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · official_source_verified
LFF competition data list Dariaus ir Girėno stadionas as hybrid grass. Natural, hybrid and artificial surfaces are kept as separate types; hybrid is not classified as fully synthetic turf.
Sources: [1] lff.lt
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · company_reported
J&E Sports Baltic provides assessment, renovation and renewal of artificial-turf sports fields — a renovation / life-cycle service, not proof of downstream recycling. Physical fraction separation, fixed processing site, final material recycling, capacity and throughput: NOT VERIFIED / UNKNOWN; no recycler pin; flagged as a high-priority cross-border research candidate after Country 29.
Sources: [1] sportsbaltic.lt
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · company_reported
J&E Sports Baltic, UAB (Panevėžys) is an active artificial-turf installation, maintenance, renovation and removal company. It states it is a Lithuanian subsidiary of a Dutch company with more than 30 years of inherited experience, and reports >200,000 m² installed and >100,000 m² of artificial turf removed — cumulative company claims, not annual throughput, capacity, national EOL or recycling volume. Dutch ownership is not a verified Lithuania→Netherlands waste route.
Sources: [1] sportsbaltic.lt [2] sportsbaltic.lt
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · unknown
Current national landscape artificial-turf stock and EOL: UNKNOWN. Current national hybrid-turf stock: UNKNOWN; hybrid is not combined with fully synthetic turf.
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · official_source_verified
LFF 2025 I League and II League schedules identify artificial-turf venues including Klaipėda (artificial-turf stadium), Jonava, Kretinga, Tauragė and Mažeikiai — use evidence, not aggregated into national stock.
Sources: [1] lff.lt [2] lff.lt
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · official_source_verified
LFF 2026 II League (B division) schedules explicitly identify artificial-turf venues, including Mažeikiai, Kretinga, Visaginas and Naujoji Akmenė — current official active-use evidence, not a census.
Sources: [1] lff.lt
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · company_reported
JSC Metaloidas states it began used-tyre recycling in 2004 and produces rubber granulate, rubber tiles, blasting mats and other recycled-rubber products; it claims to be the only company in Lithuania producing its rubber products entirely from unsuitable-for-use tyres (company claim, not a national census). Tyre recycler — not a turf recycler.
Sources: [1] metaloidas.com
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · unknown
CTE has not identified a currently active Lithuanian fixed full-field synthetic-turf recycling facility that meets the CTE public-evidence standard. Verified fixed part-stream processors (carpet, fibres/backing, sand, performance infill): 0. Verified mobile pre-processors with physical fraction separation: 0. Removal / renovation actors identified: 1 (J&E Sports Baltic).
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · company_reported
UAB Raguvilė is an end-of-life tyre collection / recycling actor; it states recycled tyres are used for rubber carpets, mats and other rubber products. Not a turf recycler.
Sources: [1] raguvile.lt
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · company_reported
UAB REnotas accepts and recycles used tyres into reclaimed/devulcanised rubber, rubber powder and rubber granules — upstream tyre material recycling; no turf input proven; not a synthetic-turf recycler.
Sources: [1] renotas.lt
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · unknown
Current verified national artificial-turf pitch count: UNKNOWN. Current verified national artificial-turf area: UNKNOWN. LFF competition schedules contain many artificial-turf venues, but CTE has not identified evidence that they form a complete national census; venue rows are not counted into a national headline.
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · official_source_verified
Visaginas Municipality Administration procurement (published 1 September 2026) for football-pitch simple repair works: removal of existing artificial grass and transport to a location in Visaginas specified by the contracting authority (STREAM A — final destination UNKNOWN); cleaning/preparation of the asphalt base; installation of USED artificial turf supplied by the contracting authority (STREAM B — VERIFIED SECOND-LIFE REUSE, not material recycling); line marking.
Sources: [1] projektusignalai.lt
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · unknown
Universal Lithuanian EOL synthetic-turf waste code: NOT ESTABLISHED — turf may generate separate plastic carpet, backing, sand, SBR/EPDM/TPE and mixed residues, and coding depends on origin, fraction, separation, contamination and treatment route. 17 02 03 is general plastic / construction-waste context only. Turf-fraction end-of-waste status: NOT GENERALLY VERIFIED.
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · official_source_verified
The Lithuanian Waste Management Act (Atliekų tvarkymo įstatymas, VIII-787) is the current national waste framework; the e-Seimas record shows multiple 2026 consolidated versions, with the version in force at the audit date consolidated from 1 September 2026 (effective 1–30 September 2026). The Ministry of Environment lists the Waste Management Act and Waste Management Rules among core waste legislation.
Sources: [1] e-seimas.lrs.lt [2] e-seimas.lrs.lt [3] am.lrv.lt

All public sources (deduplicated) (16)

Each URL is listed once; the claim-source links above are preserved per statement.

Aplinkos ministerija — Teisės aktai, reglamentuojantys komunalinių atliekų tvarkymą · am.lrv.lt · 1 statements
e-Seimas — Atliekų tvarkymo įstatymas VIII-787 — redakcijos · e-seimas.lrs.lt · 1 statements
e-Seimas — Atliekų tvarkymo įstatymas VIII-787 — current text · e-seimas.lrs.lt · 1 statements
Ekobazė — Padangų tvarkymas · ekobaze.eu · 1 statements
Elega — Tyres recycling equipment · elega.lt · 1 statements
EUR-Lex — Commission Regulation (EU) 2023/2055 · eur-lex.europa.eu · 1 statements
LFF — II lyga B divizionas 2026 · lff.lt · 1 statements
LFF — I lyga 2025 · lff.lt · 2 statements
LFF — II lyga 2025 · lff.lt · 1 statements
Metaloidas — Home · metaloidas.com · 1 statements
Projektų signalai — Futbolo aikštelės paprastojo remonto darbai (Visaginas, VPT 9456801) · projektusignalai.lt · 1 statements
Raguvilė — Tire collection and recycling · raguvile.lt · 1 statements
REnotas — Home · renotas.lt · 1 statements
J&E Sports Baltic — Sports fields renovation · sportsbaltic.lt · 1 statements
J&E Sports Baltic — Sports fields installation · sportsbaltic.lt · 1 statements
J&E Sports Baltic — Home · sportsbaltic.lt · 1 statements

CTE data quality

Claims

Sources

Claim-source links

Facilities

Official / regulatory sources

Last audited

2026-09-30

Final status: QA PASSED WITH DOCUMENTED UNKNOWN — QA PASSED — FROZEN (v1.0, 30 Sep 2026)