A Digital Product Passport for textiles must record where it was made, what it's made of, care instructions, and whether it can be recycled or repaired. It also tracks water usage, energy consumption, and carbon emissions, though brands say the environmental data will be expensive to collect.
Like the passport, needing to keep track of people, we need something that keeps track of the things we create and our textile resources. We can't keep track of what we make. What will be in the passport is origin. You already have that. You should. You should know where your product's made. The second is composition, which means what is it made of? And particularly, fiber content is outlined, but also authenticity of leather, taking care of animals and livestock, and the percentage of each material. Again, that's not new either. Care instructions— most apparel products have care instructions. What has now certainly been concerned— confirmed is that we will have to put elements of circularity, and that's specifically recyclability and repair. So that will be— have to be documented in the Digital Product Passport. And finally, impact was the one that was hanging and actually is the one that lobbyists are rejecting, saying that this is going to add so much cost to companies and brands. You'll have to account for the water usage, energy usage, and the carbon for all those products.
