Q03 · Techniques & MethodsAssess◌ NewHorizon: 12-18 mo

Digital Product Passport (Circular Retail)

Structured, machine-readable records of a product's materials, provenance and lifecycle.

Extended-producer-responsibility regulation is converting product passports from a sustainability narrative into a market-access requirement for consumer brands in several regions.

Digital Product Passport across other industries

Machine-readable provenance and lifecycle records, increasingly a market-access requirement.

Sustainability

From the Retail & Consumer Emerging Technology & Innovation Radar, Edition 2026.1, published 2026-10-01.

An independent, industry-agnostic radar curated by Shailesh Kumar.