Digital Product Passport

What is the DPP under the ESPR?

The Digital Product Passport (DPP) is a cornerstone of the new Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR). It is a digital record that follows a product across its life cycle, carrying essential information such as:

  • Material composition
  • Environmental footprint, including carbon data
  • Durability, repairability, and recyclability
  • Instructions for safe use, reuse, recycling, and disposal

This transparency will empower consumers, regulators, and businesses to make informed choices and ensure traceability across the entire value chain.

Every product covered by ESPR will require a DPP - except in cases where another EU system already provides equivalent data. The first wave of ESPR+DPP regulation focuses on high-impact, high-volume industries:

  • Textiles & Fashion
  • Furniture & Mattresses
  • Metals (Iron, Steel, Aluminium)
  • Tires & Chemicals
  • Electronics & ICT – including smartphones, tablets, chargers, displays, refrigerators, and EV chargers

Ultimately, ESPR will expand across virtually all product groups, creating universal DPP coverage across the EU market

Why is LCA crucial for DPP?

The DPP is not just a label, it's a structured, verifiable dataset on a product's environmental performance. To provide it, companies need:

  • Quantified footprints (GHG emissions, water, energy, material use) across the full life cycle
  • Scope 1–3 coverage, especially supply chain impacts
  • Consistent, science-based methods to ensure comparability across industries

That is exactly what Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) provides.

Automation with the LCAi Platform 2.0

Producing an LCA for every product manually costs tens of thousands of euros and takes months. The ESPR+DPP framework will demand product-level footprints at scale, across thousands of SKUs, suppliers, and components.

LCAi makes this possible by:

  • Automating LCA generation with our novel AI agents archtecture, cutting time and cost by up to 80%
  • Ensuring compliance-ready outputs aligned with EU standards and ISO methods
  • Scaling from one product to entire portfolios, supplier by supplier
  • Building trust with transparent, verifiable results

The bottom line

DPP is coming, and it is transforming sustainability from voluntary reporting into a regulated requirement. Companies that cannot deliver robust product-level LCA data risk losing EU market access.

With LCAi, businesses can stay ahead: fast, affordable, and compliant LCA generation - ready to power every Digital Product Passport.