Talk:Digital Product Passport

EU Digital Product Passport needs better attention
The EU is likely to introduce Digital Product Passports (DPP) in the next few years. Industries are gearing up for this.

The early examples of this are likely to be for Batteries followed by textiles / clothing. More will follow.

This is a laudable and very interesting development to make our economies circular, rather than the wasteful linear (extract, make, throw away) systems we often use these days.

There are many issues that DPP technology raise. There are significant overlaps with more business as usual data collection, but the requirements for working across many organisations over long periods of time make for much more complex systems than the current ones.

There is also a significant risk of overcomplicated systems driven by clumsy, but well meaning, regulation. The transaction cost, especially for low value clothing, say, could be significant and needs to be properly addressed early on. Taxation as an alternative to full compliance with DPP may be one way to make the introduction more flexible and learn lessons about how to make a practical system.

The main people discussing the EU DPP proposals are IT players who have systems that could be modified to provide these types of services.

An overview of these types of issue could be valuable. The current information is very basic and does not really look at the EU DPP proposals. CuriousMarkE (talk) 09:47, 7 January 2024 (UTC)