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Artificial turf recycling in Luxembourg

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

Dataset: FROZEN v1.0Verified: 2026-09-30Sources: 23QA: QA PASSED WITH DOCUMENTED UNKNOWN

Executive snapshot

Luxembourg has clear current artificial-turf replacement activity, including several public projects in 2025–2026 where existing synthetic surfaces are explicitly removed. However, CTE has not identified a complete national installed-stock total, measured annual EOL flow, dedicated domestic turf-recycling facility or verified final destination for the removed materials.

Major caveat

Luxembourg City's 9 pitches = municipal maintenance-contract scope, not a national count; football ≠ hockey; removed area ≠ new area; natural→synthetic conversion (Useldange) ≠ turf replacement; Hamm = future infrastructure; removal / transport ≠ recycling; project areas are not summed into national EOL; non-filled projects = observed design trend, not a national standard nor proven 2031 causation; Gazoon / Royal Grass = product and installation chain, not recycling; geographic proximity ≠ verified waste route.

Evidence status

v1.0 (30 Sep 2026) — national stock, area, EOL tonnage, replacements, capacity, throughput and treatment split UNKNOWN; multiple verified 2025–2026 project removals / replacements (destinations UNKNOWN); 0 verified turf processors; Gazoon = landscape installer, not a recycler

National EOL basis

Multiple verified 2025–2026 project removals / replacements (destinations UNKNOWN); national EOL tonnage and replacements UNKNOWN

Market size & installed base

CURRENT

CURRENT VERIFIED NATIONAL ARTIFICIAL-TURF PITCH COUNT: UNKNOWN · AREA: UNKNOWN. Luxembourg City 2025 maintenance contract (“gazon synthétique sans remplissage”) lists 9 non-filled synthetic football pitches: Beggen 100×60 m; Josy Barthel 2 99×55 m; Hammerel 2 / Verlorenkost 89×49 m; Hollerich 100×60 m; Stade Prince Jean / Merl 105×70 m; Stade Gaston Diederich / Pfaffenthal 102×60 m; Stade Emile Bintner / Gasperich 100×64 m; Stade Gérard Pündel / Gasperich 100×60 m; John Burns / Hamm 100×64 m — MUNICIPAL CONTRACT SCOPE ONLY, not a national count. The City's football-facility directory also lists synthetic surfaces (not a census; not double-counted). Hamm sports complex phase 3 (May 2026 – Apr 2029) includes a UEFA Class 2 pitch and a synthetic training field — future infrastructure, not EOL.

HISTORICAL

Esch-sur-Alzette reports 2014–2024 sports investment including renewal of synthetic fields at the Hiehl and Lankhelz training centres — historical / recent context; no 2026 activity or destination inferred.

MODELLED

No CTE stock model. Previous desk model archived.

UNKNOWN

Complete national stock and area across football, hockey, school, municipal, private and landscape turf.

End-of-life market

Publicly verified national tonnage

MEASURED NATIONAL EOL TONNAGE: UNKNOWN. COMPLETE NATIONAL ANNUAL REPLACEMENTS: UNKNOWN. Project evidence (shown individually, never summed): BOY KONEN FOOTBALL 2025 (ref. 2501108) — ~7,250 m² existing synthetic surface and ~7,250 m² elastic layer removed; ~6,850 m² new woven turf WITHOUT INFILL. BOY KONEN HOCKEY 2026 (ref. 2600409) — ~6,400 m² synthetic surface and ~6,400 m² drainage / shock-absorption underlayer removed; ~700 m³ load-bearing construction material evacuated (outside CTE turf scope); ~6,400 m² new turf WITHOUT INFILL. ECHTERNACH Terrain 2 2026 (ref. 2601522) — ~7,250 m² turf-carpet replacement, tender deadline 13 Jul 2026, planned start 31 Aug 2026 — PROCURED / PLANNED, not confirmed completed. LINTGEN 2026 (ref. 2600499) — synthetic-field renewal, planned start 1 Jun 2026, 40 working days; area UNKNOWN from approved source. REMERSCHEN (Schengen) 2026 (ref. 2600802) — synthetic football-surface renewal. Final destination of removed turf in every case: UNKNOWN (no reuse, recycling, energy recovery, disposal or export established).

CTE MODEL — PUBLIC INPUTS

No national EOL model in v1.0 (no pitches × m² × kg/m² ÷ lifetime calculation). Previous CTE desk model archived.

HISTORICAL

USELDANGE 2026 (ref. 2600977) — ~6,500 m² NATURAL grass removed; ~6,400 m² new tufted synthetic turf WITHOUT INFILL — natural→synthetic conversion / new build, NOT synthetic-turf EOL and not in the replacement count. Public inquiry EAU-AUT-25-0839: synthetic football field in the Attert flood zone (water / environmental authorisation context; no recycling requirement inferred).

Uncertainty & methodology

Several recent Luxembourg public projects specify non-filled synthetic-turf systems (Boy Konen football, Boy Konen hockey, Useldange). Observed project design trend — not proof that all Luxembourg turf is non-filled, nor that Regulation 2023/2055 motivated these choices.

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 LUXEMBOURG-BASED END-OF-LIFE SYNTHETIC-TURF MATERIAL-RECYCLING FACILITY VERIFIED TO CTE PUBLIC-EVIDENCE STANDARD. Turf-recycler pins: 0. Not pinned: Gazoon, Royal Grass distributor, Luxembourg City, Boy Konen, Echternach, Lintgen, Remerschen and Useldange pitches, generic waste operators. 0 pins does not establish zero recycling, export, reuse or treatment — it means the final processing routes of Luxembourg EOL turf have not yet been publicly verified.

Facility detail cards

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
Luxembourg City 9-pitch contract scope and facility directory; national stock UNKNOWN.
2. Removal
PUBLIC EVIDENCE
Removal documented at Boy Konen football 2025 and hockey 2026; Echternach, Lintgen, Remerschen 2026 renewals; national count UNKNOWN.
3. Infill separation
UNKNOWN
No verified infill separation or processor; destination UNKNOWN.
4. Turf carpet
UNKNOWN
Removed carpet destination UNKNOWN in every project.
5. Processing
UNKNOWN
0 verified fixed, part-stream, used-infill or mobile turf processors.
6. Output fractions
UNKNOWN
No verified material-recycling output fractions.
7. Secondary material
UNKNOWN
No verified secondary-material market for Luxembourg turf fractions.
8. Final destination
UNKNOWN
Export tonnage, destination countries and receiving recycler UNKNOWN — high-priority research; Belgium, Germany, France, Netherlands NOT assumed.

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 DOMESTIC TURF-RECYCLING CAPACITY: UNKNOWN / NO DEDICATED FACILITY VERIFIED. CTE has not identified a currently active Luxembourg-based fixed full-field synthetic-turf recycling facility meeting its public-evidence standard.

KNOWN THROUGHPUT

CURRENT TURF-RECYCLING THROUGHPUT: UNKNOWN.

UNKNOWN THROUGHPUT

Generic plastics, construction-waste, sand or rubber facilities do not qualify without turf-specific input evidence. Gazoon's 17 years and >1,500 projects = company-reported landscape installation experience (not pitch count, stock, EOL or throughput). Project construction values are never treated as recycling costs.

HISTORICAL

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

TARGETS

No national synthetic-turf recycling target identified; PNGDR is general waste policy.

Regulatory context

LUXEMBOURG — REGULATORY CONTEXT. Current national framework: amended law of 21 March 2012 on waste management. A September 2026 amendment bill (Legilux pl/2026/259) is a legislative project on the audit date, not enacted law. National Waste and Resources Management Plan (PNGDR) — third revision approved 15 Apr 2026, published 24 Apr 2026 — covers prevention, reuse, preparation for reuse, recycling, recovery and disposal (general policy, not turf-specific). End-of-waste: case-by-case procedure where no specific criteria apply — turf fractions do NOT automatically cease to be waste. Classification uses the European Waste Catalogue (CED); universal Luxembourg turf waste code NOT ESTABLISHED; 17 02 03 = general plastic C&D context only. Cross-border: main provisions of EU Waste Shipment Regulation 2024/1157 apply from 21 May 2026, with DIWASS digital notification mandatory; collection / transport, trading and brokering authorisations and registrations apply — none proves an actual turf shipment. EU Regulation 2023/2055: from 17 October 2031, granular polymeric infill for synthetic sports surfaces may no longer be placed on the EU market (not a pitch ban; existing infill need not be removed).

Data gaps

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

DATA GAPCOMPLETE NATIONAL STOCK AND AREA — UNKNOWN
DATA GAPMEASURED EOL TONNAGE AND NATIONAL ANNUAL REPLACEMENTS — UNKNOWN
DATA GAPDESTINATIONS OF BOY KONEN (FOOTBALL / HOCKEY), ECHTERNACH, LINTGEN AND REMERSCHEN REMOVED TURF — UNKNOWN / RESEARCH AFTER COUNTRY 29
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, NON-FILLED CARPET, SAND, SBR / EPDM / TPE AND OTHER INFILL — UNKNOWN
DATA GAPEXPORT TONNAGE, DESTINATION COUNTRIES AND RECEIVING RECYCLER — UNKNOWN / HIGH-PRIORITY RESEARCH (no destination inferred from geography)
DATA GAPUNIVERSAL TURF WASTE CODE — NOT ESTABLISHED; END-OF-WASTE — CASE-BY-CASE, NOT AUTOMATIC

Sources

Public source chain (18)PUBLIC SOURCE CHAIN VALIDATED — DATA GAPS REMAIN

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

CLAIM-SPECIFIC SOURCE · official_source_verified
Stade Boy Konen, Luxembourg-Cessange — football surface renewal 2025 (ref. 2501108): removal of ~7,250 m² existing synthetic surface and ~7,250 m² elastic layer; ~6,850 m² new woven synthetic turf without infill. Verified project-specific EOL removal + replacement. Removed area and new area are kept separate. Final destination of old turf: UNKNOWN — removal is not recycling.
Sources: [1] pmp.b2g.etat.lu
CLAIM-SPECIFIC SOURCE · official_source_verified
Stade Boy Konen — synthetic hockey surface renewal 2026 (ref. 2600409): removal of ~6,400 m² synthetic surface and ~6,400 m² drainage / shock-absorption underlayer; ~700 m³ draining load-bearing material evacuated (construction material, outside CTE turf scope); ~6,400 m² new synthetic turf without infill. Kept separate from the football project. Final destination: UNKNOWN.
Sources: [1] pmp.b2g.etat.lu
CLAIM-SPECIFIC SOURCE · official_source_verified
Luxembourg City's 2025 maintenance contract for synthetic football pitches without infill ("gazon synthétique sans remplissage") lists nine pitches: Beggen 100×60 m, Josy Barthel 2 99×55 m, Hammerel 2 / Verlorenkost 89×49 m, Hollerich 100×60 m, Stade Prince Jean / Merl 105×70 m, Stade Gaston Diederich / Pfaffenthal 102×60 m, Stade Emile Bintner / Gasperich 100×64 m, Stade Gérard Pündel / Gasperich 100×60 m, John Burns / Hamm 100×64 m. Municipal contract scope only — not a national pitch count, and not evidence that all Luxembourg turf is non-filled.
Sources: [1] pmp.b2g.etat.lu
CLAIM-SPECIFIC SOURCE · official_source_verified
The City of Luxembourg's football-facility directory identifies multiple synthetic football surfaces — municipal directory, not a national census; facilities already in the maintenance contract are not double-counted.
Sources: [1] vdl.lu
CLAIM-SPECIFIC SOURCE · official_source_verified
Echternach Terrain 2 — replacement of ~7,250 m² synthetic turf carpet (ref. 2601522); tender deadline 13 July 2026, planned start 31 August 2026, 40 working days. Status: procured / planned — completion not confirmed. Destination of removed turf: UNKNOWN.
Sources: [1] pmp.b2g.etat.lu
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · unknown
Measured national EOL tonnage, complete national annual replacements, turf-recycling capacity and throughput, treatment split, export tonnage and destination countries: UNKNOWN. CTE has not identified a currently active Luxembourg-based fixed full-field synthetic-turf recycling facility meeting its public-evidence standard; fixed part-stream, used-infill and mobile processors: 0 verified. Project areas are shown individually and never summed into national EOL. No national model; previous CTE desk model archived.
CLAIM-SPECIFIC SOURCE · official_source_verified
Luxembourg provides a case-by-case end-of-waste procedure where no specific criteria apply, so used turf, clean sand, recovered rubber or shredded plastic do not automatically cease to be waste. Waste classification uses the European Waste Catalogue (CED). A universal Luxembourg synthetic-turf waste code is NOT ESTABLISHED; 17 02 03 is general plastic C&D context only.
Sources: [1] environnement.public.lu [2] environnement.public.lu
CLAIM-SPECIFIC SOURCE · official_source_verified
Esch-sur-Alzette reports major sports-infrastructure investment in 2014–2024, including renewal of synthetic fields at the Hiehl and Lankhelz training centres — historical / recent context; no 2026 replacement or EOL destination inferred.
Sources: [1] citylife.esch.lu
CLAIM-SPECIFIC SOURCE · official_source_verified
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 ban on artificial turf, does not require pitches to close and does not require existing infill to be removed. The non-filled choices in recent Luxembourg projects are not attributed to this regulation.
Sources: [1] eur-lex.europa.eu
CLAIM-SPECIFIC SOURCE · company_reported
Gazoon Sàrl (Roeser) is a landscape synthetic-turf sales and installation company that reports about 17 years of activity and more than 1,500 completed installations, with Royal Grass as its turf partner (Royal Grass lists Gazoon as a Luxembourg distributor). Company-reported landscape installation experience — not a recycler, not a sports-pitch count, stock, EOL volume or throughput, and not evidence of Luxembourg take-back or recycling infrastructure.
Sources: [1] gazoon.lu [2] royalgrass.fr
CLAIM-SPECIFIC SOURCE · official_source_verified
Hamm sports complex, phase 3 (works from May 2026, expected completion April 2029) includes a UEFA Class 2 football pitch and a synthetic-surface training field — future infrastructure, not EOL replacement evidence.
Sources: [1] vdl.lu
CLAIM-SPECIFIC SOURCE · official_source_verified
Lintgen — "Renouvellement du terrain synthétique" (ref. 2600499), planned start 1 June 2026, 40 working days. Area, material composition, tonnage and old-turf destination: UNKNOWN from the approved source.
Sources: [1] pmp.b2g.etat.lu
CLAIM-SPECIFIC SOURCE · official_source_verified
The National Waste and Resources Management Plan (PNGDR) — third revision approved by the government on 15 April 2026 and published 24 April 2026 — addresses prevention, reuse, preparation for reuse, recycling, recovery and disposal. General waste policy, not turf-specific route evidence. Energy recovery and disposal are not material recycling.
Sources: [1] environnement.public.lu [2] environnement.public.lu
CLAIM-SPECIFIC SOURCE · official_source_verified
Remerschen football pitch (municipality of Schengen) — renewal of the synthetic surface, 2026 (ref. 2600802). Old-carpet destination, infill separation, recycling, reuse and export: UNKNOWN.
Sources: [1] pmp.b2g.etat.lu
CLAIM-SPECIFIC SOURCE · official_source_verified
From 21 May 2026 the main provisions of EU Waste Shipment Regulation 2024/1157 apply and notification dossiers must be exchanged via the digital DIWASS system. Luxembourg distinguishes authorisations for professional collection / transport, trading and brokering, and requires prior registration for certain waste movements. General framework only — no actual Luxembourg turf shipment, export tonnage, destination country or receiving recycler is verified; Belgium, Germany, France and the Netherlands are not assumed.
Sources: [1] environnement.public.lu [2] environnement.public.lu [3] environnement.public.lu
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · unknown
Current verified national artificial-turf pitch count: UNKNOWN. Current verified national area: UNKNOWN. No complete national census covering football, hockey, school, municipal, private and other turf has been identified; no total is reconstructed from municipal or competition records.
CLAIM-SPECIFIC SOURCE · official_source_verified
Useldange 2026 (ref. 2600977): removal of ~6,500 m² NATURAL-grass surface and installation of ~6,400 m² new tufted synthetic turf without infill — a natural→synthetic conversion / new build, not synthetic-turf EOL and not counted as a replacement. Public inquiry EAU-AUT-25-0839 concerned the synthetic football field in the Attert flood zone (water / environmental authorisation context; no recycling requirement inferred).
Sources: [1] pmp.b2g.etat.lu [2] enquetes.public.lu
CLAIM-SPECIFIC SOURCE · official_source_verified
Luxembourg's current national waste framework is the amended law of 21 March 2012 on waste management. An amendment bill introduced in September 2026 (Legilux pl/2026/259) is a legislative project on the audit date and is not treated as current enacted law.
Sources: [1] environnement.public.lu [2] legilux.public.lu

All public sources (deduplicated) (23)

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

Ville d'Esch-sur-Alzette — Dossier de candidature · citylife.esch.lu · 1 statements
enquetes.public.lu — Enquête publique EAU-AUT-25-0839 — terrain de football synthétique, zone inondable de l'Attert · enquetes.public.lu · 1 statements
Administration de l'environnement — Révision de la loi déchets · environnement.public.lu · 1 statements
Administration de l'environnement — PNGD 2025 · environnement.public.lu · 1 statements
Administration de l'environnement — Demande de fin du statut de déchet · environnement.public.lu · 1 statements
Administration de l'environnement — Système DIWASS et règlement UE · environnement.public.lu · 1 statements
Administration de l'environnement — Autorisations en matière de transferts de déchets · environnement.public.lu · 1 statements
Administration de l'environnement — Plan national de gestion des déchets (PNGD) · environnement.public.lu · 1 statements
Administration de l'environnement — La liste européenne de déchets (LED) · environnement.public.lu · 1 statements
Administration de l'environnement — Enregistrements en matière de transferts de déchets · environnement.public.lu · 1 statements
EUR-Lex — Commission Regulation (EU) 2023/2055 · eur-lex.europa.eu · 1 statements
Gazoon Sàrl — Gazoon · gazoon.lu · 1 statements
Legilux — Projet de loi 2026/259 · legilux.public.lu · 1 statements
Portail des marchés publics — Stade Boy Konen — renouvellement du revêtement du terrain de football synthétique (2501108) · pmp.b2g.etat.lu · 1 statements
Portail des marchés publics — Stade Boy Konen — renouvellement du revêtement synthétique de hockey (2600409) · pmp.b2g.etat.lu · 1 statements
Portail des marchés publics — Echternach — remplacement du tapis synthétique, Terrain 2 (2601522) · pmp.b2g.etat.lu · 1 statements
Portail des marchés publics — Renouvellement du terrain synthétique à Lintgen (2600499) · pmp.b2g.etat.lu · 1 statements
Portail des marchés publics — Remerschen (Schengen) — renouvellement du revêtement synthétique (2600802) · pmp.b2g.etat.lu · 1 statements
Portail des marchés publics — Useldange — aménagement d'un terrain de football synthétique (2600977) · pmp.b2g.etat.lu · 1 statements
Portail des marchés publics (Ville de Luxembourg) — Contrat d'entretien de terrains de sports (football) - gazon synthétique sans remplissage · pmp.b2g.etat.lu · 1 statements
Royal Grass — Distributeur Gazoon Sàrl Luxembourg · royalgrass.fr · 1 statements
Ville de Luxembourg — Terrains de football · vdl.lu · 1 statements
Ville de Luxembourg — Hamm — complexe sportif · vdl.lu · 1 statements

CTE data quality

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Last audited

2026-09-30

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