Make-or-break aspects of the EU´s Sustainable Products Initiative, Digital Product Passports – ECOS factsheet
A strong SPI is a once-in-a-decade opportunity to make sustainable products the norm! What are the make-or-break aspects of the initiative regarding digital product passports?
Information is key to ensure that products are sustainably designed, sold, (re)used, repaired and treated at the end of their life. As part of the Sustainable Products Initiative, the European Commission proposes to create Digital Product Passports (DPP), with the aim to store and share all relevant information along the product lifecycle. Ambitious information requirements, ones that are mandatory, wide-ranging and properly enforced, could create an incentive to make more sustainable choices, starting at the manufacturing stage
and finishing at end-of-life.
The DPP has the potential to create new opportunities for circularity and make circular business models viable. It would enable buyers to better assess product sustainability performance and choose accordingly. It could also help identify which products pose a threat to our health and the environment (e.g. substances of concern, wasteful components or types of products), and incentivise their replacement.
A strong SPI is a once-in-a-decade opportunity to make sustainable products the norm! What are the make-or-break aspects of the initiative regarding digital product passports?
Find out in this ECOS factsheet!
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