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Towards a Digital Product Passport Fit for Contributing to a Circular Economy
Last updated: Oct 4, 2022
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The Digital Product Passport (DPP) is a concept of a policy instrument particularly that has gained increased attention by policymakers due to its potential contribution to circular material flows. It has been mentioned in several EU strategies and was also confirmed in the ‘Council conclusions on making recovery circular and green’. The article seeks to work out implementation options for DPPs and how these options might benefit stakeholders and society by supplying information on the origin, composition and dismantling options of a product. Thus, the implementation of such a tool could facilitate tracking and tracing materials and compiling information in one unique database. By making businesses deliver to these objectives, the obligation to generate high quality product information can be a valuable contribution as regards to designing more sustainable products and their handling once they reach their end-of-life.
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Lack of research on how to implement DPPs, generate data, track and trace materials and engage all stakeholders in helping compile data across a product’s lifecycle. It is especially important to figure out how to ensure that data will be updated by suppliers, brands, consumers and recycling facilities to enable all the information to be correct and up-to-date. Therefore, implementation options for digital product passports need to be evaluated to allow a circular flow of materials through the active engagement of all the actors involved.
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Date added: Aug 5, 2021
Last updated: Oct 4, 2022
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