What if every product could tell the story of where it came from and where it should go next?
That idea is becoming a reality through Digital Product Passports, an initiative that is gaining momentum across Europe.
Instead of becoming anonymous waste at the end of their lives, products could carry information about their materials, origin, repair instructions, recycled content, and the best way to recover their components.
The more I learn about this concept, the more I think that the future of recycling may depend just as much on information as it does on infrastructure.
Perhaps the next revolution in the circular economy won't happen in recycling plants, but in the products themselves.
