Each statement: claim → public source → date → evidence label → limitation. Figures are shown separately and never added together.
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · unknown
CTE classification: ACTECO is a major waste-management / recycling company and DECAMP project lead, but on approved turf-specific evidence its artificial-turf role is R&D / pilot physical processing — not yet a verified continuous commercial turf recycling facility; not in the fixed commercial recycler count.
REGULATORY / PERMIT-LISTED ANNUAL TURF WASTE QUANTITY · verified
Bosque Urbano permit table: 10 t/year of artificial turf (LER 17 02 03). Permit-listed quantity — NOT actual throughput, company-reported production or full-field capacity. Actual throughput: UNKNOWN.
Sources: [1] doe.juntaex.es [2] doe.juntaex.es
OFFICIAL FACILITY LOCATION — REGULATORY ADDRESS / COORDINATES · verified
Bosque Urbano physical site per permit: Parcela 5, Polígono Industrial Molino de Viento, Malpartida de Plasencia (Cáceres); cadastral reference 4092905QE5249C0001XQ; UTM X 754,270 / Y 4,429,210, zone 29, ETRS89 — used for the map pin (converted to WGS84). Fixed part-stream processor, not a full-field recycler.
Sources: [1] doe.juntaex.es
REGULATOR-AUTHORISED TURF-DERIVED PLASTIC PART-STREAM PROCESSOR · verified
Bosque Urbano, S.L. holds permit AAU 23/120 (Junta de Extremadura resolution of 20 Oct 2024, published 29 Oct 2024) for a plant at Parcela 5, Polígono Industrial Molino de Viento, Malpartida de Plasencia (Cáceres). The permit explicitly includes LER 17 02 03 plastic — artificial turf, with recovery operations R1201 (classification / sorting) and R1203 (mechanical treatment: crushing, fragmentation, cutting, compaction).
Sources: [1] doe.juntaex.es [2] doe.juntaex.es
TOTAL FACILITY WASTE CAPACITY / PROJECT VOLUME · verified
The permit describes total annual waste-management capacity of approximately 4,115 t across several waste categories. This is total facility capacity, NOT artificial-turf capacity; only 10 t/year is assigned to artificial turf.
Sources: [1] doe.juntaex.es [2] doe.juntaex.es
REUSE / SECOND-LIFE / RESALE ACTOR · company_reported
CesReFut España: dismantling, removal, selection, line removal / preparation and sale of second-hand football turf for terraces, hotels, restaurants, events, private football and leisure areas and other sport uses — REUSE, not material recycling. Claims more than 135,000 m² dismantled since 2020 (cumulative company claim, Spain + Portugal context; not annual capacity or recycling throughput). No recycler pin.
Sources: [1] cesrefut.es [2] cesped-reciclado-futbol.es
HISTORICAL 2005 NATIONAL SPORTS-FACILITY CENSUS · verified
2005 CSD National Sports Facilities Census (reproduced by CEDEX): 3,494 sports installations with artificial turf across multiple categories (open courts, walled courts, fields, others) — 3,494 installations ≠ 3,494 football pitches.
Sources: [1] miteco.gob.es
HISTORICAL FACILITY-CATEGORY DATA · verified
Within the 2005 census: 1,108 artificial-turf installations in the “campos” / field category for Spain; other surface categories separate. Not total artificial-turf stock. 2005 regional counts (e.g. Andalucía, Cataluña, Canarias, Valencia, Balearic Islands) are historical only and not summed.
Sources: [1] miteco.gob.es
HISTORICAL CSD FOOTBALL-PITCH ESTIMATE · verified
Historical CSD manual: more than 4,000 artificial-turf football pitches in Spain, based on the then latest sports-facility census. HISTORICAL ONLY — not 2026 stock.
Sources: [1] csd.gob.es
HISTORICAL FORWARD-LOOKING PROJECTION · verified
The same CSD manual projected the number could approach 8,000 pitches within several years — a historical projection, not current stock and not a verified outcome.
Sources: [1] csd.gob.es
ACTIVE R&D / PILOT / INDUSTRIAL-SCALING ARTIFICIAL-TURF RECYCLING PROJECT · verified
DECAMP (2024–2026), led by ACTECO Productos y Servicios, S.L., with consortium partners Realturf Systems, Fanbase and Additium and technical support from AIMPLAS and IBV. ACTECO leads mechanical and physical recycling of recovered turf material in pilot / industrial-scale testing; Realturf Systems is a manufacturer / R&D partner supplying used turf for tests. Partners are not counted as recyclers. Not a verified commercial annual recycling facility.
Sources: [1] innoavi.es [2] acteco.es
R&D / PILOT MATERIAL-SEPARATION PROCESS · verified
DECAMP focuses on PE, PP, latex-containing backing and other turf fractions, using mechanical / physical separation to obtain relatively pure fractions. Pilot / development outputs: sports seats, elastic layers / shockpad-type products, new artificial-turf products and 3D-printing compounds — not current commercial market volumes.
Sources: [1] acteco.es [2] innoavi.es
R&D / TESTING ROLE · verified
IBV (Instituto de Biomecánica de Valencia) lists DECAMP among its R&D projects — R&D / testing role, not a recycler.
Sources: [1] sports-lab.ibv.org
PUBLIC-AUTHORITY-REPORTED PILOT RESULT · verified
Ivace+i reported in 2026 that the first pilot batches of high-quality recycled plastics had been produced in DECAMP. Pilot result — not commercial throughput. Annual capacity: UNKNOWN / not applicable as a commercial facility; throughput UNKNOWN; project budget and pilot batches are not converted to tonnes. No standard recycler pin.
Sources: [1] innoavi.es
CURRENT SPANISH END-OF-WASTE FRAMEWORK FOR TYRE-DERIVED RUBBER · verified
Orden TED/1522/2021 sets End-of-Waste criteria for rubber granulate and powder obtained from end-of-life tyre treatment for specified uses including artificial-turf fields and sports bases. It does NOT give End-of-Waste status to turf-derived rubber automatically.
Sources: [1] boe.es
HISTORICAL INDUSTRY-SOURCE FIELD ESTIMATE · verified
MITECO / CEDEX study reports ESTO 2012: approximately 2,000 artificial-turf fields in Spain — historical industry-source estimate; not comparable with >4,000 without scope caveat.
Sources: [1] miteco.gob.es
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · unknown
Spain — current measured national EOL tonnage, annual replacements, material-recycling throughput, turf-recycling capacity and national treatment split (reuse, recycling, energy recovery, landfill, export): UNKNOWN. No CTE tonnage model in v1.0; legacy model archived.
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · unknown
CTE has not identified a currently active Spanish fixed full-field synthetic-turf recycling facility that meets the CTE public-evidence standard. Active fixed full-field recyclers: 0 verified. Evidence status, not a performance score.
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · unknown
Spain — current verified national artificial-turf pitch count and area: UNKNOWN. CTE has not identified a sufficiently recent, comparable national census to use as a 2026 figure.
PROJECT / INDUSTRY BACKGROUND STATEMENT · verified
ACTECO / DECAMP project sources state that historically a significant share of EOL turf ended in landfill or received limited recycling / thermal disposal routes — background statement, not a national percentage.
Sources: [1] acteco.es
MUNICIPAL CIRCULARITY / REUSE PROJECT EXAMPLE · verified
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 2026: José Ruano field (Lomo Blanco) renewal — existing turf to be removed for subsequent recycling or reuse, part planned for reuse around the field; the new field uses organic infill. Announced destination, not verified material throughput.
Sources: [1] laspalmasgc.es
HISTORICAL NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CONTEXT · verified
The MITECO / CEDEX microplastics study identifies artificial sports surfaces as a source of rubber-granulate and synthetic-fibre losses. Its older emission calculations are not current 2026 measurements.
Sources: [1] miteco.gob.es
CURRENT TECHNICAL STANDARDS CONTEXT · verified
Current CSD NIDE standards cover artificial-turf football (NIDE 2-14), football-7 (NIDE 2-15, including system components and the hybrid distinction) and hockey (NIDE 2-16) surfaces — multi-sport scope confirmed; no national hockey or hybrid-turf count is inferred.
Sources: [1] csd.gob.es [2] csd.gob.es [3] csd.gob.es
COMPANY-REPORTED RECYCLING CLAIM · company_reported
Pomont Sur uses wording equivalent to “we recycle all artificial turf and removed material”. COMPANY-REPORTED claim, not a CTE conclusion; verified system-wide material-recycling rate UNKNOWN. Company address Avda. Antonio Fuentes 14, 1B, 41540 La Puebla de Cazalla is not used as a processing pin.
Sources: [1] pomontsur.com
ACTIVE TURF PRE-PROCESSING / RECOVERY / REUSE ACTOR · company_reported
Pomont Sur, S.L. (La Puebla de Cazalla, Sevilla) publishes NIMA 4190001471 and waste-manager code GRU 006602 and identifies itself as an authorised non-hazardous waste manager.
Sources: [1] pomontsur.com
ACTIVE PRE-PROCESSOR / MATERIAL-SEPARATION / REUSE PROCESSOR · company_reported
Pomont Sur describes: removal of artificial turf → separation of sand and rubber → distribution of separated fractions for new industrial uses → cleaning / brushing / preparation of carpet → reuse in non-sport applications. Carpet reuse is REUSE, not material recycling; not a full-field final material recycler. Capacity and throughput UNKNOWN.
Sources: [1] pomontsur.com
HISTORICAL R&D / PROCESS-DEVELOPMENT PROJECT · verified
RECITURF (ACTECO, AIMPLAS, Realturf Systems; 2020 onward): historical R&D to develop processes separating PP, PET, PU and other turf materials for recycling, exploring mechanical recycling, biological / enzymatic degradation and chemical recycling (glycolysis). Not a commercial facility; not all routes commercially implemented.
Sources: [1] acteco.es
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · unknown
Methodology: public tenders often require reuse, recycling or delivery to an authorised waste manager; CTE classifies tender wording as a REQUIRED / PLANNED DESTINATION unless completion evidence confirms the actual route.
NATIONAL TYRE-RECYCLING DATA · verified
MITECO (2023): end-of-life tyre treatment produced more than 84,000 t recycled rubber, approximately 33,000 t recycled steel and approximately 15,000 t recycled textile. National tyre-recycling data — NOT synthetic-turf recycling data.
Sources: [1] miteco.gob.es
UPSTREAM RECYCLED-RUBBER MARKET CONTEXT · verified
MITECO: up to 54% of recycled rubber consumed in Spain has been used in artificial-turf fields and sports-field bases — a downstream market for tyre rubber; it does not mean 54% of turf is recycled or 54% of EOL turf is rubber.
Sources: [1] miteco.gob.es
CTE DATA GAP / AUDIT CONCLUSION · unknown
Permanent Spain rule: facilities recycling end-of-life tyres and supplying SBR / rubber granulate for artificial turf are UPSTREAM SECONDARY MATERIAL PRODUCERS, not synthetic-turf recyclers; excluded from the recycler map, counts, capacity and throughput.
