Textiles: from fibre to product passport

The buyer asks before the regulator does

In textiles the product passport usually arrives as a purchasing condition from a European brand rather than as a letter from a regulator — and with a shorter deadline than legislation would have given.

Product carbon footprints, fibre composition, care data and scheme certificates are carried together, so a buyer request becomes a lookup rather than a project.

Product level, not company level

A company total does not answer a buyer asking about one fabric. Footprints are calculated per product and per route, with the factor provenance attached, and published through a QR route the buyer can open themselves.

The buyer does not have to take your word for it

In textiles the hard part is not producing the figure — it is convincing the brand of it, because the brand receives a similar table from every supplier and can check none of them. The page behind the QR is not a PDF: it shows the footprint's receipt, and the brand can recompute the hash in its own browser.

Each record also states where it came from — whether the figure came off a signed meter, was read from an invoice, or was declared. A careful supplier and a careless one no longer look identical to the brand; the difference goes on the record.

The verification the brand sees →