Fiber-Reinforced Plastic Recycling Market: Composite Waste Volume and Recovery Technology Through 2036

Between 2020 and 2025 the market grew at roughly 10.0 percent a year, as early wind turbine blade decommissioning volume began arriving in meaningful quantity and several European governments introduced landfill restrictions specifically targeting composite waste disposal across their domestic markets during that entire stretch of recent years and well beyond it too, into today.
The base case assumes 12.5 percent annual growth to 2036, built on three mechanisms: rising wind turbine blade decommissioning volume as the first generation of large-scale installations reaches end of life, aerospace composite scrap growing alongside increased commercial aircraft production and retirement cycles, and pyrolysis-based chemical recycling scaling capacity as recovered carbon fiber pricing becomes increasingly competitive with virgin fiber for non-critical applications across multiple industries and end uses worldwide.
A bull case near 13.8 percent depends on landfill restrictions expanding faster than currently planned across additional markets beyond Europe and into entirely new regions worldwide over time. The bear case near 11.2 percent assumes recovered fiber quality and pricing fail to reach parity with virgin fiber fast enough to sustain demand beyond mandated disposal volume.