Sustainable Products Initiative – A new digital product passport

 Information is key to ensure that products are sustainably designed, sold, (re)used, repaired and treated at the end of their life. As part of the Sustainable Products Initiative, the European Commission proposes to create Digital Product Passports (DPP), with the aim to store and share all relevant information along the product lifecycle. Ambitious information requirements, ones that are mandatory, wide-ranging and properly enforced, could create an incentive to make more sustainable choices, starting at the manufacturing stage and finishing at end-of-life.