Each statement: claim → public source → date → evidence label → limitation. Figures are shown separately and never added together.
TYRE-RECYCLING TECHNOLOGY / UPSTREAM MATERIAL CONTEXT · company_reported
ARCON Environmental markets tyre-recycling technology producing tyre chips, rubber granulate and rubber powder, with applications including artificial turf. Upstream technology context — not a Romanian turf EOL processor; excluded from turf recycler count, map, capacity and throughput.
Sources: [1] arcon-environmental.com.ro
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · unknown
Current verified national turf-recycling capacity: UNKNOWN. Throughput: UNKNOWN. GSF capacity and throughput: UNKNOWN — not derived from machine type, company experience, website portfolio or number of projects. Tyre / rubber-recycling capacity and FormaTurf's German capacity are not Romanian turf capacity. Project values are not capacity.
CURRENT CNI TYPE-1 BASE PROGRAMME ACTIVITY · official_source_verified
CNI procurement notice 1897 (Băneasa) documents current implementation activity in the CNI Type-1 sports-base programme. Implementation context — not a pitch count.
Sources: [1] achizitii.cni.ro
CNI / GOVERNMENT NATIONAL SPORTS-INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAMME STATUS (MARCH 2025) · official_source_verified
FRF (17 March 2025, Dej): in the CNI sports-base programme, 40 sports bases were completed, almost 60 were still being completed and approximately 50 were awaiting approval. Each Type-1 base includes one standard-size synthetic football pitch, floodlighting, stands, changing facilities, parking and one smaller 40 × 20 m multifunctional field (surface type not assumed; not counted as a second turf pitch). Programme status — not national stock.
Sources: [1] frf.ro
PROGRAMME TARGET / DESIGN · official_source_verified
FRF describes the broader EURO 2020-linked programme as 400 football fields for grassroots football, including 300 fields within 150 sports bases and 100 fields at schools. Programme target — not completed current stock and not 400 existing artificial-turf pitches.
Sources: [1] frf.ro
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · unknown
National treatment split (reuse, material recycling, energy recovery, landfill / disposal, export): UNKNOWN — no chart. National destinations of turf carpet, sand, SBR / EPDM / TPE and organic infill: UNKNOWN. Current measured EOL exports and destination countries: UNKNOWN; the SYNLawn / FormaTurf relationship does not establish national Romania → Germany flows, and Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands or Italy are not inferred.
TYRE-WASTE SYSTEM / UPSTREAM CIRCULAR-RUBBER ACTOR · company_reported
Eco Anvelope (national end-of-life tyre management / producer-responsibility actor) states that used tyres can be cut, shredded, granulated or ground into rubber granules / powder, and that products from used-tyre processing may become raw material for rubber mats, sports surfaces and artificial turf. Tyre → recycled rubber → artificial turf is upstream material supply, not artificial turf → recycling; not a turf recycler, not counted as used-infill recycling.
Sources: [1] ecoanvelope.ro [2] ecoanvelope.ro [3] ecoanvelope.ro
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · unknown
Current measured national EOL tonnage: UNKNOWN. Current complete national annual replacement count: UNKNOWN. Current national treatment split: UNKNOWN. No Romania tonnes/year model in v1.0 — FRF / CNI field counts are not multiplied by an assumed field weight or divided by an assumed lifetime.
CURRENT EU / ROMANIAN REGULATORY CONTEXT · 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, applicable in Romania as an EU Member State). This is not a ban on artificial turf, does not make existing synthetic fields illegal and does not require existing rubber infill to be removed in 2031.
Sources: [1] eur-lex.europa.eu
CURRENT FRF PROGRAMME OUTPUT · official_source_verified
FRF (18 August 2026): its programme began about 8 years earlier with the goal of one artificial-turf football pitch in every Romanian county; by August 2026 approximately 20 such pitches had been completed. The new Zalău base (Sălaj County) includes 1 artificial and 1 natural-grass football field and is not counted separately from the ≈20. FRF states these fields are in addition to CNI-supported sports bases. ≈20 ≠ national artificial-turf stock.
Sources: [1] frf.ro
COMPANY-REPORTED POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE · company_reported
GSF company claims: separated materials can be reintegrated into artificial-turf applications, construction fill or landscaping; the company has more than 15 years of experience in sports-field construction / maintenance. Prepared for recycling ≠ proven final recycling; actual fraction-specific destinations: UNKNOWN; 15 years ≠ 15 years of EOL turf recycling. No fixed final plastics-recycling line, mass balance, secondary-polymer production or End-of-Waste status is proven.
Sources: [1] mentenanta-gazon.ro [2] mentenanta-gazon.ro
ACTIVE MOBILE / PROJECT-BASED TURF PRE-PROCESSOR / MATERIAL SEPARATION (COMPANY-DOCUMENTED) · company_reported
GENERAL SPORT FIELD (GSF), active (contact locations Bucharest and Dorohoi / Botoșani County): describes artificial-turf deinstallation with a RenoMatic RM1502 that removes and separates sand, rubber granulate and other organic infill from the carpet, using filters, vibration systems and blowers to separate synthetic fibres from rubber + sand. After separation, fibres may be shredded / cut and rubber and sand filtered, classified and sorted to prepare materials for recycling or reuse. CTE classification: mobile pre-processor / material-separation processor — not a full-field recycler; no fixed pin (addresses are company / contact locations). Capacity and throughput: UNKNOWN.
Sources: [1] mentenanta-gazon.ro [2] mentenanta-gazon.ro
CURRENT MUNICIPAL ARTIFICIAL-TURF REPLACEMENT PROJECT · official_source_verified
Iclod municipality, 11 May 2026: invitation to tender 'Înlocuire gazon sintetic Iclod Arena' (synthetic-turf replacement), with invitation PDF and technical specification (caiet de sarcini). Primary municipal procurement evidence; old-turf destination, recycling / reuse rate and tonnage: UNKNOWN.
Sources: [1] primariaiclod.ro [2] primariaiclod.ro
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · unknown
NO CURRENT FIXED ROMANIAN END-OF-LIFE SYNTHETIC-TURF MATERIAL-RECYCLING FACILITY VERIFIED TO CTE PUBLIC-EVIDENCE STANDARD. Fixed turf-recycler pins: 0. General Sport Field is listed as a mobile pre-processor without a fixed pin (Bucharest and Dorohoi addresses are company / contact locations). Not pinned: SYNLawn (product / installer), FormaTurf (German, external), Eco Anvelope and ARCON (tyre system / technology), contractors and pitches. This does not mean Romania has no turf recycling — domestic fixed full-field recycling is simply not publicly verified to CTE standard.
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · unknown
Landscape, padel, tennis, multisport, school, minifootball and hybrid turf stock, EOL and recycling: UNKNOWN; not extrapolated from FRF / CNI football programmes. 'Recyclable', bio-based or PCR-content product claims are not evidence that recycling happened.
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · unknown
CTE has not identified a currently active Romanian fixed full-field synthetic-turf recycling facility that meets the CTE public-evidence standard. Verified counts: fixed full-field 0; fixed part-stream (carpet, fibres / backing, sand, performance infill) 0; mobile pre-processors 1 (General Sport Field). Generic plastics, construction or rubber recyclers do not qualify without turf-specific input evidence; installers and contractors are not recyclers.
FRF PROGRAMME PROJECT / LOCATION CONTEXT · official_source_verified
Reghin (FRF, 6 May 2025): FRF supplied the artificial football playing surface; the municipality supplied land, changing facilities, floodlights, stands and other infrastructure. FRF states similar programme pitches were already completed in locations including Iași, Botoșani, Timișoara, Satu Mare, Râmnicu Sărat, Deva, Buftea, Piatra Neamț, Giurgiu, Brăila and Târgoviște. Location list — not a national inventory.
Sources: [1] frf.ro
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · unknown
Individual replacement projects (Iclod 2026, UAIC 2023, TUIASI 2019) are never summed into national annual replacements. Further 2026 project-level examples mentioned in the brief (Foltești, Nădrag, Iași school, Segarcea) are not published in v1.0 because no primary procurement or municipal source URL was supplied.
CURRENT PROJECT / MAINTENANCE MATERIAL CONTEXT DURING TRANSITION · official_source_verified
A 2026 Bucharest Sector 5 local-council document still includes SBR / EPDM granules as synthetic-turf infill / maintenance material. Project-specific transition-period context — no national infill share inferred.
Sources: [1] hcl.usr.ro
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · unknown
Current verified national artificial-turf pitch count: UNKNOWN. Current verified national artificial-turf area: UNKNOWN. Romania has a substantial and expanding artificial-turf football base, but CTE has not identified a complete current public national census; no total is built from the FRF county programme, CNI sports bases, municipal, school, minifootball or private pitches.
CURRENT CNI ARTIFICIAL-TURF PROJECT EXAMPLE · official_source_verified
Suceava (FRF, 26 April 2025): new CNI sports base with a synthetic pitch to UEFA dimensions and a 40 × 20 m multifunctional field; investment approximately EUR 1.1 million. Project value ≠ recycling cost.
Sources: [1] frf.ro
COMPANY-REPORTED EXTERNAL RECYCLING ROUTE / PRODUCT CLAIMS · company_reported
SYNLawn Romania (artificial-turf product / installation actor) states that, in collaboration with FormaTurf, it is able to recycle artificial turf 100% in Germany; it also makes recyclability, bio-based and PCR-content product claims. Company-reported external route and product-design claims — not Romanian recycling capacity or throughput, not a national Romania → Germany flow and not proof that every SYNLawn project goes to Germany. FormaTurf is a separate German actor: not pinned in Romania, its capacity is not Romanian.
Sources: [1] synlawn.ro [2] synlawn.ro
HISTORICAL PROJECT-SPECIFIC REPLACEMENT AREA · official_source_verified
Technical University Gheorghe Asachi, Iași (2019): replacement of 1,360 m² of artificial turf at a university sports base. Project-specific area — not a national average pitch size.
Sources: [1] tuiasi.ro
HISTORICAL / RECENT PROJECT-SPECIFIC REPLACEMENT EVIDENCE · official_source_verified
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iași (2023): technical specification for replacement of a synthetic football-pitch surface. Project-specific — no national trend inferred.
Sources: [1] uaic.ro
NATIONAL WASTE-CATALOGUE CONTEXT · official_source_verified
The Romanian waste list (HG 856/2002) includes 17 02 03 plastics and 17 09 04 mixed construction and demolition waste. A universal Romanian EOL synthetic-turf waste code is NOT ESTABLISHED (coding is fraction-, origin- and process-specific), and turf-fraction End-of-Waste status is NOT GENERALLY VERIFIED — separated sand, cleaned infill or shredded polymer do not automatically cease to be waste.
Sources: [1] legislatie.just.ro
CURRENT ROMANIAN NATIONAL WASTE FRAMEWORK · official_source_verified
Emergency Ordinance (OUG) 92/2021 on the waste regime is the current national waste framework (prevention, reuse, recycling, recovery, disposal, traceability); it largely replaced Law 211/2011. No turf-specific facility permits are inferred.
Sources: [1] legislatie.just.ro
