Old track, new raw materialWorn-out plastic surfaces and elastic layers on sports pitches don't have to become waste. Through a specialized recycling process, dismantled sports surfaces are processed into new granulate and returned to the material cycle.
Sustainable recycling of plastic surfaces

Depending on how heavily a track is used, numerous plastic running tracks reach the end of their service life every year. Elastic base layers, too, must be partially or fully renewed after 35 or 40 years. Rather than incinerating and disposing of these materials, they can be returned to sports facility construction.

Our recycling process allows old plastic surfaces to be properly reprocessed, so they can be reused as new granulate in the base layers of running tracks or multi-purpose pitches, and in elastic layers beneath artificial turf systems.

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First, decommissioned tracks are removed and shredded into sections on site. At the ISO 9001-certified FormaTurf plant, these sections are further processed using a unique high-tech recycling method that combines both conventional and mechanical processing and separation steps. They are then shredded again into granulate and dried.

Around 10,000 tonnes per year go through this process at our certified specialist facility. The granulate is packaged (big bags and 25 kg sacks), and the material can be used for the base layers of new running tracks and multi-sport facilities. It can also be used for elastic layers beneath artificial turf systems.

Applications for the recyclate
  • Base layers for new plastic running tracks
  • Base layers for new multi-purpose pitches
  • Elastic (load-bearing) layers of artificial turf systems
Sustainability
in focus

Through the material recycling of worn-out plastic sports surfaces

  • Erhalt wertvoller Rohstoffe im Stoffkreislauf
  • Reduzierung des Bedarfs an Primärrohstoffen
  • Aktiver Beitrag zur Ressourcenschonung im Sportstättenbau
From the sports pitch back into the recycling loop

Recycling in sports facility construction involves far more than classic plastic surfaces such as running tracks or fall-protection areas. Today, complex artificial turf systems can also be recycled materially in a closed loop. In a multi-stage high-tech process, turf and infill are fully separated, processed, and returned as a secondary raw material into new products for the sports facility, construction, and garden sectors – transparent and traceable from removal through to reuse.

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About FormaTurf

At FormaTurf, every component of an artificial turf system is recycled: we separate the materials and then process them using a uniquely advanced high-tech recycling method. This gives recycled materials a "second life" in the form of new plastic products and customer-specific solutions for sports pitch construction, as well as for a wide range of applications in the garden, construction, and industrial sectors.

Transparent

Every step of the FormaTurf recycling process is fully visible and traceable for our customers – from removal through to delivery at the recycling plant. This is made possible by a tracking system integrated into every one of our turf rolls. That gives you 100% certainty that every roll ends up exactly where it should.

Holistic

For us, holistic means waste-free. Every artificial turf system delivered to us passes through several recycling stages and is processed accordingly. With our recycling solution, we guarantee that valuable materials are never lost or left unused in the cycle, but instead flow back as new materials into sports facility construction or other industries.

Sustainable

For us, sustainable production means working in a resource-efficient way. Our processes are carefully designed with energy and resource conservation in mind. After use, every artificial turf system we handle is returned to the materials cycle as a new, long-lasting product with a wide range of applications.

Excellently positioned

20,000 m² of company premises in an excellent infrastructural location provide sufficient storage capacity to hold up to 100 full-size pitches simultaneously. A material-based recycling concept featuring wet-separation technology and a state-of-the-art high-tech machine park. The entire facility runs on green electricity.

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