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Artificial turf recycling facilities in Europe
A structured, source-linked record of identified artificial turf recycling facilities. Capacity values are never merged: licensed, installed, announced, company-reported and verified throughput are shown separately.
results: 19
Artificial turf recycling facilities in Europe
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results: 19
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| Artificial turf recycling facilities in Europe | Operator | Country | Processes | Outputs | Status | Evidence level |
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| TUF Recycling (Dongen) | TUF Recycling | netherlands | infill_extraction, storage | sand, sbr, backing | closed Missing value | evidence.government_source |
| Plastic Recycling Despriet — Harelbeke | Plastic Recycling Despriet (legal/historical name: Despriet Gebroeders NV) | belgium | washing, densification, grinding / size reduction | plastic waste, artificial-turf fractions, artificial-turf carpets | operational Missing value | Company reported |
| Let's Recycle Artificial Grass | Let's Recycle Artificial Grass Ltd | united-kingdom | — | — | permitting Missing value | evidence.government_source |
| Realsport second-hand turf reuse | Realsport SA | switzerland | — | — | operational Missing value | Company reported |
| RevalGreen Grenay | RevalGreen / SERFIM Recyclage | france | mechanical shredding, screening, dry separation, densimetric separation, material-specific valorisation | — | operational Independently verifiedCompany-reported | Company reported |
| Herning recycling site (former Re-Match) | Former Re-Match | denmark | downsizing, drying, dry separation, cleaning without water, separation into rubber/fibre/sand/backing | — | closed Independently verifiedCompany-reported | evidence.industry_source |
| Mobile/fixed turf recycling systems | 100% TurfRecyclers | italy | carpet evacuation/beating, infill drying, sand/rubber separation, wet separation, fibre shaving, washing, densification, polymeric granulation | — | mobile_technology Company-reported | evidence.industry_source |
| Tiel artificial-turf recycling site (former Re-Match) | Overdie (Tiel — redevelopment / under development); former operator Re-Match Nederland (bankrupt, historical) | netherlands | dry mechanical downsizing, drying, separation, air-table separation, historic Re-Match process, current redevelopment route under Overdie | sand, sbr, epdm, tpe, pe, pp, backing | redevelopment Missing value | evidence.industry_source |
| KIAS Ohlsdorf | KIAS Recycling GmbH | austria | rubber / tyre-derived material recycling; turf-specific full-field route not confirmed in current public source set | — | operational Missing value | Company reported |
| FormaTurf Essen | FormaTurf GmbH | germany | deconstruction, mechanical separation, sand/infill separation, mechanical recycling, company also references proprietary mechanical and chemical processes, moulding of composite products, QR traceability | — | operational Company-reported | Company reported |
| Erstein recycling site (former Re-Match France) | Former Re-Match France | france | historic Re-Match dry mechanical downsizing/cleaning/separation | — | closed Company-reported | evidence.industry_source |
| Sportex Grangemouth | Sportex Group Limited | united-kingdom | pitch removal/transport, rubber separation, sand cleaning/drying/grading, turf shredding/cleaning, plastic agglomeration | — | operational Company-reported | Company reported |
| Refield Piobbico | Refield S.r.l. | italy | field cutting/removal, authorised transport, shredding, separation into base components, recycling of produced fractions | — | operational Company-reported | Company reported |
| ARENA / mobile recycling system | Advanced Sports Installations Europe AS / ARENA | estonia | roll handling, infill reclamation, crushing, dry cleaning, agglomeration, mobile on-site processing | — | unknown Missing value | evidence.industry_source |
| GBN-AGR Amsterdam | Artificial Grass Recycling B.V. / GBN-AGR | netherlands | field intake/segregated storage, infill extraction/beating, cleaning, shredding, agglomeration (RTA), sand cleaning, rubber/TPE recovery | sand, sbr, pe, pp, backing | operational Company-reported | Company reported |
| PR Recycling GmbH | PR Recycling GmbH | germany | de-installation, transport, mobile on-site separation, stationary separation, recycling/recovery of sand and functional infill, elastic-layer recycling | — | operational Missing value | evidence.industry_source |
| Proxy Fields | Proxy Fields | belgium | — | — | operational Missing value | Company reported |
| Infrasports processing unit | Infrasports | france | processing of synthetic turf, separation, historically SBR-filled systems; broader infill capability was announced for end-2023 | — | operational Company-reported | Company reported |
| Plastic Recycling Despriet — Hulshout | Plastic Recycling Despriet (legal/historical name: Despriet Gebroeders NV) | belgium | extrusion / regranulation | plastic regrind | operational Missing value | Company reported |