Packaging
PPWR Harmonised Packaging Labelling (2028)
One EU label will replace Triman and the Italian scheme. The timeline, the digital-label option and the "one QR or two" question.
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Recycling and producer responsibility
Extended producer responsibility, waste law, sorting information and the data recyclers actually need.
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Packaging
PPWR Harmonised Packaging Labelling (2028)
One EU label will replace Triman and the Italian scheme. The timeline, the digital-label option and the "one QR or two" question.
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.
Chemicals
DPP for Plastic Raw Materials and Polymers
A polymer is an intermediate; it produces data not for its own passport but for its customer's. Set the batch record up right and that data is produced once and used everywhere.
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.
Textile
Textile EPR: France, the Netherlands and the EU Scheme
France has had textile EPR since 2007 and the Netherlands since 2023; a harmonised EU scheme is coming. Product data will set the fee.
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.
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.
Recycling & EPR
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and the DPP
What happens after the product is still your responsibility — and good data can cut the cost of it directly.
Electronics
Where WEEE, RoHS and REACH Meet the DPP
Electronics already answers to three regimes that want substance and waste data. The passport brings them into one record.
Packaging
Packaging, PPWR and the Digital Product Passport
Packaging has its own regulation but shares the same data infrastructure. How to design for both at once.
Furniture
The Digital Product Passport for Mattresses
A mattress is among the hardest consumer products to separate. The DPP will make that difficulty visible.
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.