The DPP space — without the noise.
Regulatory updates, market analysis and technical commentary on EU Digital Product Passport and ESPR compliance. Written by Stefano Cipriani — CIRPASS-2 Expert Member and JRC Registered Stakeholder — directly from the working groups where the rules are being written.
Every LCA has a dirty secret: the inventory
A PEF calculation has two layers. The industry obsesses over the second and hand-waves the first.
They called me a trouble maker.
In 2025 that was an opinion about me. 2026: in 60 days it is an obligation on them. Nothing in the data changed.
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I gave my AI access to my sources.
Here is the difference.
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The Registry Opens Before the Trust Layer Does
On 19 July the EU's central Digital Product Passport Registry goes live as a resolver — while the trust layer that would make passport data true is still a consultation document.
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One Endpoint, Every AI: Why I Opened Reecopedia to Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini
The market believes its AI can already answer regulatory questions. It can — the LinkedIn version of them.
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Six Brands. Seven Months. One Word.
ABC for Fashion Brands
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Europe Just Made the 44% Illegal: The Fragmented Reality of EU Anti-Greenwashing Enforcement
In Italy, from 27 September 2026, an undocumented per-garment recycled or organic claim is no longer just a marketing risk. The same is happening in Europe.
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The Fashion Press Has a DPP Problem: It is not covering it.
A recap of Fashion Industry media coverage on one of the bigger challenges that will impact the whole network.
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Most "ESPR-ready" DPP claims have never been put through the actual conformance tooling.
Develop a DPP meant develop an enforcement tool, not a product.
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The RAG Stack Behind Reeco
A Technical Assessment Against the 2026 Production Baseline
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The certificates were all valid. (44% of the material was not)
A three-year audit of 656,309 yards and what it reveals about the structural gap in textile DPP verification.
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The Ladder Has a Sixth Rung. It Just Isn't Where You'd Expect It.
Applying the Bernier–Hbeich interoperability ladder to textile DPP — and what semantic interoperability still does not verify.
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