Passports

Product Passports are your licence for a circular world, they give you the information on what's in a product, how to use it, how to maintain, how to repair and how to recycle. March 2022 the EU introduced the proposal for Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR). This new regulation specifies the Digital Product Passport. Final approval is expected early 2024.

The DPP should offer free access to data to actors along the entire value chain including customs authorities. This information must be based on open standards and inter-operable formats and be machine readable, searchable and structured.

The DPP should be easily accessible by scanning a data carrier, such as a watermark or a QR code. 

The data carrier should be on the product itself to ensure the information remains accessible throughout its life cycle. However, the ESPR also states that the data carrier shall be physically present on the product, its packaging, or on documentation accompanying the product. To ensure interoperability, the types of permitted data carriers, the data carrier, the unique product identifier, and unique operator and facility identifiers will be standardized to guarantee compatibility with external components such as scanning devices.

The CiLAB Collective has introduced a low cost, high value concept by 'upcycling' existing technologies. This means that we use available technologies without having the need to have deep expertise on information technologies.
We have based the passport on the GS1 Digital Link.

We believe that the willingness of providing the information is more important than the technologies used.

The link between the product and its digital twin is provided through a simple QR code using the GS1 Digital Link concept. The concept was introduced through a pilot project with Joseffa, Live Twice. 

All Digital Product Passport data from the Joseffa 2022 collection is available through this link.

For the verification of the composition of each product we have used the portable hand-held scanner from Spectral Engines. This scanners analyse the fiber content of textiles using near infrared technology (NIR).