Circular products

‍Whether textiles, construction products or packaging — Cradle to Cradle Certified® offers companies a clear framework for designing products for circularity right from the start. As an accredited assessment body, we support you through the entire certification process: from material analysis to optimization to successful certification. This makes sustainability both measurable and marketable.

Material health and recyclability, the core messages of Cradle to Cradle, are clearly summarized in Circularity Passport® — Products. Every optimization that we and our customers make to the product together leads directly to improved indicators. In this way, progress can be communicated, both internally and externally.  Thanks to the modular structure of our service, the step from Circularity Passport® — Products  to C2C Certified® is possible at any time.

This transparency tool provides an overview of the material health of your product. Clearly assessed and explained for your target audience, it allows you to differentiate yourself from your competitors' products. Your product is more than the sum of its molecules, so combine the Material Health Statement seamlessly with the Circularity Passport® or C2C Certified®.

Secure a competitive advantage by transparently proving the compliance of your products with leading Green Building Certificates, as well as automated integration into the DGNB Navigator and on Heinze.de.
ProCA offers a constantly up-to-date data service for transparent green building compliance, which integrates all relevant product information directly into their digital work processes. This allows you to concentrate fully on your core business while we keep an eye on compliance with certification standards for you.

The life cycle assessment in accordance with ISO 14040/14044 offers the opportunity to clearly quantify and thus optimize the ecological effects of the entire life cycle. We assess the ecological footprint of your product specifically according to your needs. We also support you in publishing the results as a verified Environmental Product Declaration (EPD).

As part of the Ecodesign Regulation for sustainable products, the EU will introduce a Digital Product Passport (DPP) requirement for all relevant products by 2030. The exact requirements for the DPP are still under development.
Digital product passports are a market mechanism that makes the circular value of materials, products and systems visible. EPEA has been using them in Cradle to Cradle projects for over two decades!