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.
The Flexireo platform aims to stop destruction being the default decision for unsold products.
It coordinates reconditioning across external partners, document recovery, recycling and disposal decisions, and ensures full ESPR-ready traceability for every product.
Digital Product Passports are being rolled out and are key to keeping products and materials in circulation. However, they require interoperable, machine-readable data.
Verisav provides open RDF/OWL vocabularies for Digital Product Passports, as well as for returns and after-sales service and machine-readable warranties.
APARO is building an operational software infrastructure for textile circularity.
It is starting with the physical processes where circularity actually happens: collection, sorting, material movements, quality assessment, traceability and downstream flows.
Digital Product Passports are designed to provide reliable product data supporting sustainability, circularity, value retention for re-use, remanufacturing and recycling.
This company is developing a software-as-a-service solution for EU SMEs, enabling them to produce DPPs quickly and easily.
DPPSkop is a comprehensive B2B SaaS platform developed to meet the Digital Product Passport (DPP) requirements mandated under the EU’s Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation.
The platform enables manufacturers, particularly in high-impact sectors such as textiles, batteries and electronics, to digitise, manage and share the lifecycle data of their products.
Waste To Resources Latvia - boosting regional sustainability and circularity is a Lifeproject which provides a framework for coordinating, testing and scaling up circular economy solutions at national level, involving multiple partners and thematic implementation areas.
So far, it has launched national digital platforms for reuse and industrial symbiosis, improved data availability and decision-support tools for the waste management sector, and enhanced quality assurance of secondary materials through an accredited polymer testing laboratory.
How many plastic bottles actually enter the recycling process?
Theory is one thing and reality tends to be another. The Czech Ministry of the Environment wanted to find out what really happens to plastic bottles after they are thrown into sorted bins for plastic waste. It commissioned Adastra to carry out a project using IoT technology to track the movement of sorted bottles.
