Digital Product Passport in textile
Digital Product Passport in textile
Sub-project manager Jenny Wärn
Textile production doubled during 2000-2015 and is expected to increase by another 63 percent by 2030. At the same time, 11 kg of clothes per person and year are discarded every year in the EU. The wasteful linear textile industry is in desperate need of change to a more sustainable and circular one where material use and waste is minimized.
Purpose and aim: Investigate the development, opportunities, and challenges of a digital product passport in textiles by creating a real time pilot for the Digital Product Passport for textiles, with the long-term aim of :
- Improving sustainable production
- Transitioning to a circular economy
- Enabling authorities to verify compliance
- Helping consumers to make sustainable choices
- And creating new business opportunities
Textile production doubled during 2000-2015 and is expected to increase by another 63 percent by 2030. At the same time, 11 kg of clothes are discarded every year in the EU. The wasteful linear textile industry is in desperate need of change to a more sustainable and circular one where material use and waste is minimized.
Purpose and aim: Investigate the development, opportunities, and challenges of a digital product passport in textiles by creating a real time pilot for the Digital Product Passport for textiles, with the long-term aim of :
- Improving sustainable production
- Transitioning to a circular economy
- Enabling authorities to verify compliance
- Helping consumers to make sustainable choices
- And creating new business opportunities
Sub-project manager Jenny Wärn
The goal of the sub-project is twofold:
- Create and pilot a first version of the digital product passport in textile to electronically register, process and share product-related information amongst supply chain businesses, authorities, and consumers.
- Investigate the opportunities and challenges that the DPP and its implementation entail for textile and fashion enterprises in a master thesis.
The participating brands will benefit from the project through:
- Increasing transparency and traceability of products to enable improved consumer communication and, in the long run, product design
- Being compliant with current and future regulations;
- Moving one step closer to enabling circular material flows by starting to lay the foundation for sharing information with stakeholders in a circular value chain
Pilot for a digital product passport for textiles
This pilot of the digital product passport will be tested by tagging garments in production with a digital carrier linked to specific product data that will generate a product ID. The digital product passport will store supply chain- and transparency data that will be accessible by the consumer, the brands, and authorities from the point of sale. The use case will be tested on chosen products in both Kappahl’s and Marimekko’s product lines.
The passport should capture and store relevant product data based on a first phase of the digital product passport from an authority-/EU-, brand- and consumer perspective. The passport should enable unique product identification and easily share data between different parties through following standards and what is already being developed in other ongoing projects and initiatives globally.
Partners:
Trustrace, Marimekko, Kappahl, Elis, SIS Swedish Institute of Standards, GS1, TEXroad Foundation, Circularista, Policy Hub, Alto University (master thesis)
