Countries

Artificial turf recycling in Slovenia

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

Dataset: FROZEN v1.0Verified: 2026-09-30Sources: 17QA: QA PASSED WITH DOCUMENTED UNKNOWN

Executive snapshot

Slovenia has a well-documented football infrastructure and clear evidence of artificial-turf replacement projects, but a current national synthetic-turf stock, measured annual EOL flow and dedicated domestic material-recycling capacity are not publicly established to CTE's evidence standard. The NZS publishes an official list of large artificial-turf football pitches, but the approved list in the current CTE source set is dated 15 December 2022; CTE therefore does not treat it as a current 2026 national stock figure. Lendava (2023, 7,800 m²) is a completed replacement with turf, granulate and quartz sand removed — destination UNKNOWN; Kodeljevo (2026) is a current replacement tender; Izola (2025) is project-specific replacement funding. CTE has not identified a currently active Slovenian fixed full-field synthetic-turf recycling facility that meets the CTE public-evidence standard. Lepa Trata removes infill as a maintenance service; FS Group is an installer — neither is a recycler.

Major caveat

2022 NZS register ≠ current 2026 stock. Project ≠ national: Lendava 7,800 m², Kodeljevo tender, Izola EUR 506,015 are never scaled up. Tender ≠ completed project. Replacement ≠ recycling. Removal of infill ≠ material recycling. Maintenance (brushing, decompaction, top-up) ≠ EOL processing. Funding programmes (EUR 5.4m, EUR 473,610, EUR 250,000; 84 mixed projects) ≠ pitch counts. Installer ≠ recycler. External recyclers (FormaTurf, GBN-AGR, Re-Match, Refield, Infrasports) ≠ Slovenian capacity. IS-Odpadki reporting ≠ recycling proof. 17 02 03 ≠ universal turf code. 0 fixed pins ≠ no recycling; no ranking.

Evidence status

v1.0 (30 Sep 2026) — national stock, area, EOL, replacements, capacity, throughput and treatment split UNKNOWN; 0 verified fixed or mobile turf processors

National EOL basis

UNKNOWN — no national CTE model

Market size & installed base

CURRENT

CURRENT VERIFIED NATIONAL ARTIFICIAL-TURF PITCH COUNT: UNKNOWN · AREA: UNKNOWN. Latest approved NZS large-pitch register in the current source set: status 15 Dec 2022 (not a 2026 census). 2024 pipeline: NZS artificial-turf programme ≈EUR 5.4 million (11 municipalities named); FŠO EUR 473,610 (9 locations); NZS SIPN EUR 250,000 (6 projects) — funding, not pitch counts. 2025: government supported 84 mixed sports-infrastructure projects, incl. Izola main-stadium turf replacement (investment EUR 506,015, co-financing EUR 250,000) and Rogatec lighting at an artificial-turf field. 2026: Kodeljevo replacement tender (ŠPORT LJUBLJANA, deadline 23 Sep 2026); Ljubno ob Savinji small-sided artificial-turf area within a park redevelopment.

HISTORICAL

HISTORICAL, NOT ADDED: NZS SIPN 2022 replacement cases — Krško (large field, surface from 2010), Britof (small field 60 × 40 m, surface from 2009), Železniki (large field, surface from 2009). New construction 2022: Kamnik — Virtus, large pitch 100 × 64 m (not a replacement).

MODELLED

No CTE stock model. Legacy desk model archived.

UNKNOWN

Current national stock and area; small-sided, landscape, hybrid, tennis, hockey and multisport turf (kept separate from the NZS large-pitch register).

End-of-life market

Publicly verified national tonnage

MEASURED NATIONAL EOL TONNAGE: UNKNOWN · ANNUAL REPLACEMENTS: UNKNOWN. Lendava 2023: official completed replacement, 7,800 m²; turf, granulate and quartz sand removed — final destination UNKNOWN, not classified as recycling. Kodeljevo 2026: current replacement tender. Izola 2025: project-specific replacement funding. Together they show replacement activity exists — not an annual national count.

CTE MODEL — PUBLIC INPUTS

No Slovenia EOL model in v1.0 (the 2022 NZS register is not multiplied by a field mass or divided by a lifetime).

HISTORICAL

Legacy CTE desk model (installed base × renovation cycle × 28–35 kg/m²) archived 30 Sep 2026.

Uncertainty & methodology

Treatment split (reuse, material recycling, energy recovery, landfill / disposal, export): UNKNOWN — no chart. Export volumes and destination countries UNKNOWN (not inferred from proximity). Destinations of sand, used infill granulate and turf carpet: UNKNOWN.

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 SLOVENIAN END-OF-LIFE SYNTHETIC-TURF MATERIAL-RECYCLING FACILITY VERIFIED TO CTE PUBLIC-EVIDENCE STANDARD. Active turf-recycler pins: 0. Not pinned: Lepa Trata (maintenance / infill removal), FS Group (installer), FormaTurf and other external European recyclers (not Slovenian), project sites (pitches, not processors). Slovenia has documented pitch replacement, turf removal, infill removal and maintenance activity, but final material-recycling routes are not sufficiently public to verify domestic fixed recycling infrastructure.

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.

LEPA TRATA — SPORTS-TURF MAINTENANCE / ARTIFICIAL-TURF INFILL-REMOVAL ACTOR — NOT A RECYCLER
FS GROUP d.o.o. — SPORTS-INFRASTRUCTURE / ARTIFICIAL-TURF INSTALLER — NOT A RECYCLER

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
NZS 2022 large-pitch register and 2024–2026 projects documented; current national stock UNKNOWN.
2. Removal
PUBLIC EVIDENCE
Project-specific removal documented (Lendava 2023); no national replacement data.
3. Infill separation
UNKNOWN
Infill removal (Lendava; Lepa Trata maintenance service) documented; separation and destination UNKNOWN.
4. Turf carpet
UNKNOWN
Carpet destination UNKNOWN.
5. Processing
UNKNOWN
0 verified fixed full-field, part-stream, infill or mobile processors.
6. Output fractions
UNKNOWN
No verified output fractions.
7. Secondary material
UNKNOWN
External recyclers (e.g. FormaTurf) are context only — not Slovenian capacity; cross-border use UNKNOWN.
8. Final destination
UNKNOWN
National destination split UNKNOWN.

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. No verified turf processor, so no facility capacity. Lepa Trata turf EOL capacity: UNKNOWN / NOT VERIFIED.

KNOWN THROUGHPUT

CURRENT VERIFIED NATIONAL TURF-RECYCLING THROUGHPUT: UNKNOWN. Lepa Trata turf EOL throughput: UNKNOWN / NOT VERIFIED.

UNKNOWN THROUGHPUT

No numeric capacity or throughput figure is published. 7,800 m² (Lendava) is a project area; EUR 506,015 (Izola) is an investment value; EUR 5.4m / 473,610 / 250,000 are funding — none is capacity or throughput. FormaTurf capacity is not Slovenian capacity.

HISTORICAL

None.

TARGETS

No national synthetic-turf recycling target identified.

Regulatory context

SLOVENIA — REGULATORY CONTEXT. 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 and does not require existing fields to close or be removed. National waste-treatment rules require treatment without harm to health and the environment, with recovery where possible and disposal for waste not recovered. IS-Odpadki is the national waste information system (2026: reporting of 2025 data) — reporting is not proof of recycling. A Slovenian permit uses 17 02 03 (plastic) in a construction-waste context; a universal Slovenian EOL synthetic-turf waste code is NOT ESTABLISHED. NZS rules and licensing (FIFA Quality Programme, NZS / UEFA approval) are football governance, not environmental regulation.

Data gaps

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

DATA GAPCURRENT NATIONAL STOCK AND AREA — UNKNOWN (NZS register dated 15 Dec 2022)
DATA GAPMEASURED EOL TONNAGE AND ANNUAL REPLACEMENTS — UNKNOWN
DATA GAPNATIONAL TURF-RECYCLING CAPACITY AND THROUGHPUT — UNKNOWN
DATA GAPTREATMENT SPLIT — UNKNOWN
DATA GAPDESTINATIONS OF SAND, GRANULATE AND CARPET — UNKNOWN
DATA GAPEXPORT VOLUMES AND DESTINATION COUNTRIES — UNKNOWN
DATA GAPSMALL-SIDED, LANDSCAPE, HYBRID, TENNIS, HOCKEY AND MULTISPORT TURF — UNKNOWN
DATA GAPUNIVERSAL TURF WASTE CODE — NOT ESTABLISHED

Sources

Public source chain (30)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 verified national turf-recycling capacity: UNKNOWN. Current verified national turf-recycling throughput: UNKNOWN. No capacity is derived from service capability, project areas or project values.
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · unknown
National treatment split (reuse, material recycling, energy recovery, landfill / disposal, export): UNKNOWN — no chart. National destinations of removed sand, used infill granulate and turf carpet: UNKNOWN. Lendava confirms removal only; Lepa Trata confirms granulate-removal capability only.
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · unknown
Current measured national EOL tonnage: UNKNOWN. Current annual replacements: UNKNOWN. Current national treatment split: UNKNOWN. No national Slovenia tonnes/year model in v1.0 — the 2022 NZS register is not multiplied by an assumed field mass or divided by an assumed lifetime.
CURRENT EU / SLOVENIAN 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 Slovenia as an EU Member State). This is not a ban on artificial turf and does not require existing fields to close or be removed.
Sources: [1] eur-lex.europa.eu
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · unknown
Current measured quantity of Slovenian EOL turf exported for recycling: UNKNOWN. Destination countries: UNKNOWN — not inferred from proximity to Italy, Austria, Germany, Croatia or the Netherlands.
EXTERNAL EUROPEAN RECYCLING ROUTE / CONTEXT ONLY · company_reported
FormaTurf is a European synthetic-turf recycler but not a Slovenian facility: not pinned in Slovenia, its capacity is not counted as Slovenian capacity, and Slovenian fields are not assumed to go there. The same applies to GBN-AGR, Re-Match / Turf Recycling, Refield, Infrasports and other European facilities; cross-border use UNKNOWN.
Sources: [1] formaturf.com
SPORTS-INFRASTRUCTURE / ARTIFICIAL-TURF INSTALLATION ACTOR (COMPANY CLAIM) · company_reported
FS GROUP d.o.o. (offices / warehouse Peruzzijeva ulica 105, 1000 Ljubljana; official address Sv. Trojica 87, 1233 Dob) supplies / installs artificial turf and sports infrastructure. Installer / contractor — not a verified EOL material recycler; no recycler map pin.
Sources: [1] fs-group.com [2] fs-group.com
2024 FUNDING / PROJECT PIPELINE · official_source_verified
Fundacija za šport (FŠO) 2024 approved artificial-turf-related funding of EUR 473,610 combined for locations including Cerklje na Gorenjskem, Kolpa / Metlika, Košana / Pivka, Nova Gorica, Prevoje, Sežana, Šentilj, Trebnje and Žalec. Funding pipeline — not a completed pitch count.
Sources: [1] nzs.si
CURRENT NATIONAL SPORTS-INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING CONTEXT · official_source_verified
In 2025 the government supported 84 sports-infrastructure projects covering many sports and facility types; the 84 are not artificial-turf projects. Artificial-turf examples include Izola (replacement of artificial turf at the main stadium) and Rogatec (lighting improvement at an artificial-turf football field).
Sources: [1] gov.si
CURRENT NATIONAL WASTE-TRACEABILITY / REPORTING CONTEXT · official_source_verified
Slovenia operates IS-Odpadki as the national waste-management information system; 2026 functionality includes reporting of 2025 waste data. Registration / reporting in IS-Odpadki is not proof of material recycling.
Sources: [1] gov.si
PROJECT-SPECIFIC ARTIFICIAL-TURF REPLACEMENT FUNDING · official_source_verified
Izola, Mestni stadion — replacement of artificial turf on the main pitch: investment value EUR 506,015; approved public co-financing EUR 250,000. Investment value is not recycling cost.
Sources: [1] gov.si
HISTORICAL / RECENT NEW-CONSTRUCTION CASE · official_source_verified
Kamnik — Virtus (NZS SIPN 2022): new large artificial-turf pitch, 100 × 64 m. New construction — not mixed with the replacement count.
Sources: [1] trgovina.nzs.si
CURRENT 2026 PUBLIC ARTIFICIAL-TURF REPLACEMENT PROJECT · official_source_verified
Kodeljevo (Ljubljana): 2026 public tender JN007121/2026-SL1/01 (JN-79215) 'Zamenjava umetne travnate površine na pomožnem nogometnem igrišču v Športnem parku Kodeljevo', contracting authority ŠPORT LJUBLJANA, tender deadline 23 September 2026. A tender is not a completed project, and replacement is not verified recycling.
Sources: [1] ejn.gov.si
OFFICIAL COMPLETED PROJECT-SPECIFIC ARTIFICIAL-TURF REPLACEMENT CASE · official_source_verified
Lendava (DOŠ 1 football pitch): replacement of artificial turf, 7,800 m², completed in 2023. Works included removal of the existing artificial turf including granulate infill and quartz sand, preparation / strengthening of the sandy base and installation of new artificial turf. 7,800 m² is a project-specific area — not a national average field size or an annual national replacement volume.
Sources: [1] gov.si
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · unknown
Lendava 2023: turf, granulate and quartz sand were physically removed; the final destination of each (recycling, reuse, landfill, export) and any recovery rate: UNKNOWN. This project is not classified as recycling.
SPORTS-TURF MAINTENANCE / ARTIFICIAL-TURF INFILL-REMOVAL ACTOR (COMPANY CLAIM) · company_reported
Lepa Trata (Drbetinci 47, 2255 Vitomarci), active: company lists services including decompaction of existing granulate in artificial turf, adding granulate, brushing artificial turf and removing existing granulate from artificial grass. Classified as maintenance / infill-removal actor — the source does not establish EOL field dismantling, fraction separation, downstream recycling, a fixed facility, capacity or throughput. Not a recycler, not counted, no map pin; capacity and throughput UNKNOWN.
Sources: [1] lepatrata.si
CURRENT 2026 NEW / REDEVELOPED ARTIFICIAL-TURF FACILITY CONTEXT · official_source_verified
Ljubno ob Savinji (Forst sports-recreation park), 2026: broader redevelopment including a small-sided football area with artificial turf. New / redeveloped facility — not EOL evidence.
Sources: [1] gov.si
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · unknown
Active turf-recycler pins in Slovenia: 0. Not pinned: Lepa Trata (maintenance / infill removal), FS Group (installer), FormaTurf and other external recyclers (not Slovenian), project sites (pitches, not processors). This does not mean Slovenia has no EOL activity or recycling — domestic fixed recycling is simply not publicly verified to CTE standard.
2024 FOOTBALL INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT PIPELINE · official_source_verified
NZS 2024: artificial-turf infrastructure funding / projects for municipalities including Cerklje na Gorenjskem, Hoče-Slivnica, Ljutomer, Maribor-Pobrežje, Naklo, Sežana, Slovenj Gradec, Šentjur, Šoštanj, Tolmin and Trebnje, with combined artificial-turf programme context of approximately EUR 5.4 million. The number of names is not a count of completed new pitches.
Sources: [1] nzs.si
FOOTBALL FACILITY LICENSING CONTEXT · official_source_verified
NZS infrastructure licensing criteria: official matches on artificial turf require approval from the competent NZS authorities and, where applicable, UEFA approval. No recycling or waste status is inferred.
Sources: [1] nzs.si
OFFICIAL NZS LARGE ARTIFICIAL-TURF FOOTBALL-PITCH REGISTER AS OF 15 DECEMBER 2022 · official_source_verified
The NZS publishes an official list of large artificial-turf football pitches, but the approved list in the current CTE source set is dated 15 December 2022. CTE therefore does not treat it as a current 2026 national stock figure. Small-sided, school, municipal non-football and landscape turf are not included.
Sources: [1] nzs.si
CURRENT FOOTBALL TECHNICAL / GOVERNANCE CONTEXT · official_source_verified
NZS Rules of the Game: a pitch may be natural, artificial (where competition rules allow) or hybrid where allowed; artificial surfaces for certain international matches must meet FIFA Quality Programme for Football Turf criteria. Football governance context — not an environmental or recycling certification.
Sources: [1] nzs.si
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · unknown
Landscape artificial-turf stock, EOL and recycling: UNKNOWN. Hybrid-turf stock: UNKNOWN (not combined with artificial turf). Small-sided football, tennis, hockey and multisport synthetic stock: UNKNOWN — the NZS large-pitch register is not all football artificial turf, and football is not extrapolated to other sports.
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · unknown
CTE has not identified a currently active Slovenian fixed full-field synthetic-turf recycling facility that meets the CTE public-evidence standard. Verified counts: fixed full-field 0; fixed turf-derived part-stream 0; used-infill recyclers 0; mobile EOL pre-processors 0 verified. Generic plastics, construction-waste or tyre recyclers do not qualify without turf-specific input evidence.
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · unknown
Lendava 2023 (completed replacement) and Kodeljevo 2026 (current replacement tender) show that current / recent replacement activity exists; they do not establish an annual national replacement count.
HISTORICAL NZS REPLACEMENT-PROGRAMME CASES · official_source_verified
NZS SIPN 2022 historical replacement cases: Krško (large artificial-turf field, existing surface from 2010), Britof (small artificial-turf field 60 × 40 m, surface from 2009) and Železniki (large artificial-turf field, surface from 2009). These show older surfaces entering replacement cycles; they do not establish a national lifetime or annual replacement rate.
Sources: [1] trgovina.nzs.si
2024 NZS INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING CONTEXT · official_source_verified
NZS SIPN 2024 annual infrastructure programme supported artificial-turf projects including Mengeš, Mozirje, Sežana, Šentjur, Tolmin and Žiri, with a combined artificial-turf allocation of EUR 250,000. Not converted to a pitch count.
Sources: [1] nzs.si
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · unknown
Current verified national artificial-turf pitch count: UNKNOWN. Current verified national artificial-turf area: UNKNOWN.
NATIONAL WASTE-CODE EXAMPLE (NOT TURF-SPECIFIC) · official_source_verified
A Slovenian environmental permit uses waste code 17 02 03 (plastic) in a construction-waste context. This source is not turf-specific; a universal Slovenian EOL synthetic-turf waste code is NOT ESTABLISHED, as turf systems contain different polymer, sand, rubber / elastomer and backing fractions.
Sources: [1] gov.si
CURRENT NATIONAL WASTE-TREATMENT FRAMEWORK · official_source_verified
Slovenian waste-treatment rules require treatment to avoid harm to human health, water, air, soil, plants, animals and the environment; waste should be recovered where possible, with disposal for waste that is not recovered.
Sources: [1] spot.gov.si

All public sources (deduplicated) (17)

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

e-JN — JN007121/2026-SL1/01 — Zamenjava umetne travnate površine, Športni park Kodeljevo · ejn.gov.si · 1 statements
EUR-Lex — Commission Regulation (EU) 2023/2055 · eur-lex.europa.eu · 1 statements
FormaTurf — FormaTurf · formaturf.com · 1 statements
FS Group — Contact · fs-group.com · 1 statements
FS Group — Artificial turf & landscaping · fs-group.com · 1 statements
Ministrstvo za finance — Zaključni račun 2023 — obrazložitve posebni del (MGTS) — Menjava umetne trave DOŠ 1 Lendava · gov.si · 1 statements
Vlada RS — Ministrstvo podprlo 84 novih projektov za razvoj športne infrastrukture (30.6.2025) · gov.si · 2 statements
Vlada RS — Podpis pogodbe — športno-rekreativni park Forst, Ljubno ob Savinji (12.5.2026) · gov.si · 1 statements
Vlada RS — Registracija uporabnika IS-Odpadki · gov.si · 1 statements
ARSO / Vlada RS — Okoljevarstveno dovoljenje RAZKOP 35460-38/2025 · gov.si · 1 statements
Lepa Trata — Sports turf maintenance · lepatrata.si · 1 statements
NZS — Infrastrukturni licenčni kriteriji · nzs.si · 1 statements
NZS — Tudi v Celju stadion najvišje kategorije po merilih Evropske zveze (2024) · nzs.si · 3 statements
NZS — Pravila nogometne igre · nzs.si · 1 statements
NZS — Seznami stadionov in igrišč — Igrišča (velika) z umetno travo, stanje 15.12.2022 · nzs.si · 1 statements
SPOT — Obdelava odpadkov · spot.gov.si · 1 statements
NZS — Priloga B — razpis SIPN 2022 — tabela razdelitve sredstev · trgovina.nzs.si · 2 statements

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Last audited

2026-09-30

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