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LAPSE:2023.31758
Towards a Digital Product Passport Fit for Contributing to a Circular Economy
Thomas Adisorn, Lena Tholen, Thomas Götz
April 19, 2023
The Digital Product Passport (DPP) is a concept of a policy instrument particularly pushed by policy circles to contribute to a circular economy. The preliminary design of the DPP is supposed to have product-related information compiled mainly by manufactures and, thus, to provide the basis for more circular products. Given the lack of scientific debate on the DPP, this study seeks to work out design options of the DPP and how these options might benefit stakeholders in a product’s value chain. In so doing, we introduce the concept of the DPP and, then, describe the existing regime of regulated and voluntary product information tools focusing on the role of stakeholders. These initial results are reflected in an actor-centered analysis on potential advantages gained through the DPP. Data is generated through desk research and a stakeholder workshop. In particular, by having explored the role the DPP for different actors, we find substantial demand for further research on a variety of issues, for instance, on how to reduce red tape and increase incentives for manufacturers to deliver certain information and on how or through what data collection tool (e.g., database) relevant data can be compiled and how such data is provided to which stakeholder group. We call upon other researchers to close the research gaps explored in this paper also to provide better policy direction on the DPP.
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digitalization, easy-to-repair design, Energy Efficiency, life cycle assessment, product policy, resource efficiency
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Adisorn T, Tholen L, Götz T. Towards a Digital Product Passport Fit for Contributing to a Circular Economy. (2023). LAPSE:2023.31758
Author Affiliations
Adisorn T: Energy, Transport and Climate Policy Division, Wuppertal Institute, 42103 Wuppertal, Germany [ORCID]
Tholen L: Energy, Transport and Climate Policy Division, Wuppertal Institute, 42103 Wuppertal, Germany
Götz T: Energy, Transport and Climate Policy Division, Wuppertal Institute, 42103 Wuppertal, Germany
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Energies
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14
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8
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2289
Year
2021
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2021-04-19
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1996-1073
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