The industry driven debate on digital battery passports as enablers of a Circular Economy has gained increased momentum. To bring a sustainability research guided perspective to the table, this paper spotlighted the information needs and requirements that digital battery passports have to fulfil. Even though the European Commission has outlined some minimum data requirements that digital product passports have to fulfil (e.g., provision of master data), the question remains:
What data is truly needed to allow digital product passports to enable a circular economy?
Read a summary in the ipoint blog here: https://www.ipoint-systems.com/blog/digital-battery-passports-to-enable-circular-battery-ecosystems-in-europe/
The full paper can be read with open access here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.131492