Closing the Loop - Accessing Innovation to increase Sustainability

2014-05  For many years the sport surfacing industry has made use of recycled materials in their product systems.

Use of recycled materials in sport surfaces

From recycled tires used in polyurethane-bound elastic layers for indoor and outdoor sports surfacing applications, to modern third-generation football pitches recycling millions of tires in form of performance infill and to the reuse of ground-up athletic footwear equipment in surfacing solutions which are some of the examples.  Today, the industry is working on concepts on how to recycle sports surfaces at their end of their useful life and find value-add-use for the materials.  In order to assess sustainability, material selection, process review and options to reuse or recycle become important aspects.

Additional information

If you want to understand further details on methods, applications and solutions on recycling of sports surfaces, please contact chemneera.