GBE Product Passport

• An innovation of some importance
• A set of information about the components, resources and materials that any product contains
• information that is useful when an obsolete product re-enters the production cycle
• Would tackle the problem of inadequate business-to-business information about the objects
• Recyclers and re-users can obtain clear information on the resources contained in a product
• How they can be disassembled, reused, recovered or recycled at the end of the product’s first useful life
• Would encourage a move away from an intense resource use and waste economy towards a circular economy
• Segregation for reuse or recycling as an economic activity could be greatly boosted
• Include information on any risks that might be posed, for example by hazardous materials
• Considering the ultimate limitations on resource availability, they are the way we need to go
• The manufacturing sector have shown reluctance to permit their introduction since second hand goods are competition for their virgin goods

GBE CPD

• Reclaim Product Material Passports (CPD) G#30129

 GBE Guest Posts

• The Rise of Material Passports (Guest Post) G#42818

GBE Jargon Buster

• APP
• BIM
• CoBIE
• EPD
• EREP
• GPP
• PDS
• REAP
• SME
• SWMP
• Uniclass
• WRAP

• BIM model libraries
• BIM Product Objects
• Building Information Modelling/Management (BIM)
• CoBIE classification system
• Environmental Product Declaration (EPD)
• Environmentally-harmful subsidies
• European Commission’s Roadmap to a resource-efficient Europe.
• European Resource Efficiency Platform (EREP)
• Green Public Procurement (GPP)
• ISO 14025 on environmental labels and declarations
• Product Data Sheet (PDS)
• Product Passports (Jargon Buster) G#1097 N#1115
• Resource efficiency
• Resource efficiency tools
• Site Waste Management Plan (SWMP)
• Small and medium-sized companies (SME)
• UNICLASS Classification System