Digital Product Passports are intended to provide the information needed to repair a product, reuse its components and enable efficient disposal at end of life.
However, a DPP only does circular work if the person holding the product can read it. WIARA makes multilingual publication the default rather than a paid extra.
DPP Envoy is a B2B software platform that helps manufacturers and importers build EU-compliant Digital Product Passports for batteries, textiles and construction products.
Their website also includes a wide range of practical guides which will be very useful for SMEs familiarising themselves with this area.
REvive Alhaurín puts the circular economy into action at community level.
It encourages local people to opt for repairing and sharing items rather than buying new ones, and provides useful advice on how to be a more responsible consumer.
AKT-Origins is a Rotterdam-based company developing a Digital Product Passport platform.
ORIGINS is geared to the needs of SMEs and enables companies to provide the information required on what the product is made of, where it came from, how to keep it in use, and what should happen to it at end of life without publishing sensitive information.
Polycert Europe is a European umbrella platform. It enables the mutual recognition of existing accredited plastics certification schemes across Europe, ensuring consistent, transparent and reliable verification of recycled content, origin, traceability and mass balance.
RetuRO was set up in November 2023 to administer the national Deposit Return System.
Customers pay a small deposit when they buy a soft or alcoholic drink included in the scheme, which they get back when they drop the packaging off at a reverse vending machine or the counter.
Renting a vehicle rather than buying one is a circular-economy lever in mobility: it lets more users share the same asset, maximising the resources consumed.
A good digital rental management tool makes vehicle use even more efficient, minimising wasted resources and extending the vehicle's lifecycle.
OrigoVero™ is a Digital Product Passport platform built for the EU's Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) and adjacent sector rules, including the EU Battery Regulation, the wine e-label and future textile, toy, packaging and construction requirements.
