{"title":"Leather, textile, rubber and plastic waste market in Europe","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/europe/196-leather-textile-rubber-and-plastic-waste","scope":"Europe (30 countries: EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)","category":{"cpvGroup":"196","label":"Leather, textile, rubber and plastic waste"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 564 supply contracts for leather, textile, rubber and plastic waste through award notices on TED; the 315 of them that state a value (55.9%) add up to €75.5 million. EU countries together imported €1.7 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to leather, textile, rubber and plastic waste in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 3915, 5202, 6310, 5505, 4004 and 2 more headings; sum of national imports, trade between EU countries included; all buyers, not only public ones), down 7.2% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 450 companies have won 1,739 public supply contracts for leather, textile, rubber and plastic waste in 30 European countries, in 717 award notices from 520 public buyers.","1.7% of these awards went to a company registered in a different country from the buyer; the most frequent foreign origin is Netherlands.","The five companies that win most often hold 20.4% of all awards across Europe.","15.4% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":1739,"awardNotices":717,"winningCompanies":450,"publicBuyers":520,"awardsWithValue":948,"awardedValueEur":351035966,"localAwards":1709,"foreignAwards":30,"top5Share":0.20414031052328924,"singleBidAwards":236,"awardsWithKnownBids":1530,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":12,"awardNotices":12,"awardsWithValue":9,"awardedValueEur":1138287},{"year":2024,"awards":564,"awardNotices":223,"awardsWithValue":219,"awardedValueEur":81677074},{"year":2025,"awards":564,"awardNotices":246,"awardsWithValue":315,"awardedValueEur":75462402},{"year":2026,"awards":599,"awardNotices":236,"awardsWithValue":405,"awardedValueEur":192758204}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"3915","label":"Waste, parings and scrap, of plastics"},{"hs4":"5202","label":"Cotton waste, incl. yarn waste and garnetted stock"},{"hs4":"6310","label":"Used or new rags, scrap twine, cordage, rope and cables and worn-out articles thereof, of textile materials"},{"hs4":"5505","label":"Waste of man-made staple fibres, incl. noils, yarn waste and garnetted stock"},{"hs4":"4004","label":"Waste, parings and scrap of soft rubber and powders and granules obtained therefrom"},{"hs4":"5003","label":"Silk waste, incl. cocoons unsuitable for reeling, yarn waste and garnetted stock"},{"hs4":"5103","label":"Waste of wool or of fine or coarse animal hair, incl. yarn waste (excl. garnetted stock, waste of hair and bristles used in the manufacture of brooms and brushes, and of horsehair from the mane or tail)"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":1827445428},{"year":2024,"valueEur":1732956345},{"year":2025,"valueEur":1696031234}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in the EU-27 — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €2.93 trillion in 2025, 15.5% of GDP (Eurostat). Award notices on TED cover only the contracts above the EU thresholds, so they show who wins, not the whole of that spending."],"allPublicPurchasing":{"year":2025,"valueEur":2926602000000,"percentOfGdp":15.5,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":31.3,"definition":"General government intermediate consumption + gross fixed capital formation + social transfers in kind purchased from market producers (Eurostat ESA 2010 items P.2 + P.51G + D.632)."},"source":"Eurostat, government finance statistics (gov_10a_main, gov_10a_exp) and GDP (nama_10_gdp), https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/government-finance-statistics/database, retrieved 2026-11-09"},"industryReports":[],"method":"One award per procedure, lot and winning company from live TED contract award notices published since November 2023; a joint procurement counts on every buyer's market; values are awarded amounts only (framework ceilings and estimates never added), converted to euro at the ECB yearly average. Imports: only customs headings (HS 4 digits) whose trade is predominantly the CPV group, listed under imports.customsHeadings, all buyers, not only public ones; a category that no heading isolates has no import figure (imports: null). https://cresques.com/methodology","sources":["TED — Tenders Electronic Daily, © European Union, https://ted.europa.eu","Eurostat, international trade in goods (Comext), © European Union"],"licence":"CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","citation":"Cresques, \"Leather, textile, rubber and plastic waste market in Europe\", https://cresques.com/markets/europe/196-leather-textile-rubber-and-plastic-waste, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}