Loopami is a Milan-based platform which creates local communities of people interested in sharing and reusing items. It's still in the testing phase, but the initiative reduces consumption and waste while also forging closer ties between neighbours.
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.
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.
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.
B-Plas treats sludge from municipal wastewater plants, industrial facilities, agro-food industries and paper mills.
By developing and installing on-site plants, sludge is converted into raw material for biopolymers and the residual volume needing disposal is reduced by up to 80%.
FIXNOW is a smartphone repair company based in Belgium. Where technically feasible, they can replace the glass on the display rather than the entire display module.
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.
