Electronics
Recycled Content in Electronics: The Horizontal Measure
2029 looks far away, but collecting part-level proof of recycled plastic takes years. Where appliance and electronics makers should start today.
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Circularity and recycling
How repairability, disassembly, recyclability and recycled-content data are represented in a passport.
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Electronics
Recycled Content in Electronics: The Horizontal Measure
2029 looks far away, but collecting part-level proof of recycled plastic takes years. Where appliance and electronics makers should start today.
Furniture
Furniture DPP Data Fields and the JRC Study
The furniture delegated act is expected in 2028, but most fields are already written into the Ecolabel criteria. Known versus expected, in one table.
Chemicals
DPP for Lubricants: Base Oil and Waste Oil Loops
A lubricant is not a product that vanishes in use; it is a material that comes back as waste oil. The passport closes that loop with data.
Aluminium
Scrap Content and Alloy Proof for Aluminium
A high scrap-share claim is only as strong as the cast house's charge record. The evidence chain for extruders, rollers and cast houses.
Textile
Separate Textile Waste Collection (2025) and the DPP
A garment you sell today will enter a sorting line in 2035. The passport's composition fields decide whether that line can work.
Battery
Second-Life Batteries and Passport Continuity
A battery that no longer suits the vehicle is not finished. The regulation makes second life a defined process, and the passport is handed over in it, not deleted.
Textile
Repairability and Repair Information for Textiles
There is no repairability index for garments yet. But spare buttons, a zip reference and a repair guide can go into the passport today.
Textile
Proving Recycled Fibre: GRS, RCS and the DPP
A "50% recycled polyester" claim with no transaction certificate behind it is a green claims risk. How do you tie GRS and RCS into the passport?
Battery
Recycled Content in Batteries (Article 8)
Documentation in 2028, first minimum shares in 2031, a second step in 2036. Calculating the share is easy; proving the material really came from waste is hard.
Textile
Microplastic Release from Synthetic Textiles and the DPP
There is no mandatory microplastic field yet, but it is a candidate. Prepare with one test per fabric quality, stored per SKU.
Retail & E-commerce
The DPP in Resale and Second-Hand Markets
The biggest friction in second-hand is uncertainty. That is exactly what a passport removes.
Digital Product Passport
The Future of the DPP and Competitive Advantage
Those who see the DPP only as a burden miss the opportunity. We explore the passport's potential to become a competitive and marketing asset.
Automotive
ELV: The End-of-Life Vehicles Regime and the DPP
A vehicle's end begins in its design. The ELV regime makes that measurable through material data.
Repairability
The Right to Repair Directive and the DPP
Repair is now a right — which means spare part and repair information becomes publishable data.
Life Cycle Assessment
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Basics
LCA measures a product's cradle-to-grave environmental impact. We simplify the method behind the DPP's carbon and environmental data.
Electronics
DPP for Electronic Products
In electronics the DPP intertwines with the right to repair and critical-raw-material transparency. We cover the data the passport carries here.
Tyre
Tyre DPP Requirements
Tyres are a demanding product: the carrier must stay readable for years. We cover the data a tyre DPP needs and the marking challenges.
Furniture
The Digital Product Passport for Furniture
Furniture is where ESPR's durability and disassembly criteria will be most visible — and most measurable.
Battery
The Battery Passport (EU Battery Regulation)
The battery passport is the earliest DPP to take effect. We examine this obligation, which arrives under a separate regulation, and its scope.
Aluminium
The Digital Product Passport for Aluminium
Carbon intensity in aluminium can differ by an order of magnitude. That is why route and energy data matter more than a single number.
Textile
The DPP for Footwear
Not in the first wave, but not off the hook either. Complex material structures and the timeline ahead.
Textile
Textile DPP: A Guide for Apparel Exporters
Textiles are ESPR's priority group. We walk apparel exporters step by step through the data needed to prepare a passport.
Textile
Textile DPP Data Points: The JRC Proposal
The JRC study and the Swedish pilot point the same way: around 126 candidate fields, of which 25–30 are shown on scan.
Circularity
Circularity and Recyclability Data
The passport's real purpose is to make circularity measurable. We explain why repair, disassembly and recycling data sit at its centre.
Circularity
How to Prove Recycled Content
Saying "30% recycled" is easy; proving it is not. Chain-of-custody models and what evidence belongs in the passport.
ESPR
The Ban on Destroying Unsold Textiles and Footwear
In force for large companies since 19 July 2026, the ban directly reshapes stock management in textiles and footwear.
ESPR
ESPR Ecodesign Performance Requirements
The passport is an information requirement; performance requirements change the product itself. How the two instruments differ and intersect.
Digital Product Passport
Which Data Fields Are Mandatory in a DPP?
Passport content varies by product group, but the core headings repeat. Where each field comes from — and who can actually supply it.