Digital Product Passport (DPP) will be a game changer for Europe and its industries. As a standardised unique digital record of a product, mandated by the European Union to provide comprehensive information about a product’s life cycle, it is meant to increase transparency, promote a circular economy and streamline regulatory compliance. It will contain data on a product’s origin, conformity, materials, environmental performance, and be accessed through data carriers like QR codes.
The CE-RISE project, an EU-funded project aiming to optimise raw material reuse and recovery in electronic products, is working on the creation of an “Information System” that will structure all this information and make it easily accessible, consistent and interoperable for the future use of DPPs. The first version is expected to be operational by January 2026, combining the work of 28 partners from 11 European countries.
To test the theoretical work in practice CE-RISE is running five pilots, focussing on the following products: printers, batteries, large HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning) equipment, ICT equipment and PV modules.
CE-RISE project partner Lexmark, now part of Xerox, is taking part in the pilots and is testing how the DPP can support their operations at their Circular Economy Hub in Poland where collected printers and cartridges are brought from all over Europe for remanufacturing and refurbishment.
