The Digital Product Passport gives a complete, structured overview of a product: its impact, materials, substances, circularity, transport journey and company information. Below you’ll find each part of the passport and what you see when you open it.
Top header
Shows what is in the report and how the product can be identified.
Key product information
This section displays the core details that identify and describe the product inside the passport.
Product name
Product image (if added)
Product ID
Category
Description
Packaging configuration
This line shows how the product is structured across products, packs, cases, and pallets in the passport.
Because packs, cases, and pallets are shared across multiple items, each product receives only its fractional share.
Examples:
1 product → impact calculated for a single item
0.1 pack → 10 products share one pack
0.03 case → ~33 products per case
0.008 pallet → ~125 products per pallet
These fractions determine how much packaging impact is allocated to each individual product in the footprint calculation.
Change view
When you change the view, you’re not changing the data — only the lens you use to look at it (per piece or per kg). The product passport automatically recalculates and updates the footprint to match the view you selected.
View: Per piece
You can choose which packaging layer you want to look at: Product / Pack / Case / Pallet
After selecting a layer, you can increase or decrease the quantity, and the other layers will scale accordingly.
As soon as you change the quantity or switch layers, the line above updates (products • packs • cases • pallets • weight) and the product passport recalculates the environmental footprint for exactly that configuration.
View: Per KG
This scales all materials to 1kg in total. It helps you compare and evaluate products based on their material intensity, without any dependency on how many units fit in a pack, case, or pallet.
Additional product details
Extra identifiers and logistical information you entered for the product. This typically includes:
Supplier name and supplier article ID
GTIN-13 / GTIN-14 codes
Sales unit (e.g., piece, pack, case)
Pallet weight and dimensions
These details link the Product Passport to your internal systems (ERP, logistics, procurement, warehousing), ensuring the passport reflects exactly how the product is handled in your supply chain.
Data & Ownership
Defines who owns the passport, how it’s shared, and which version you’re looking at.
A QR code for sharing
Data holder
Passport ID
Last updated date
Version number
Public link
Overview
The Overview section summarizes the most important information in four blocks:
Impact, Materials, Circularity & end of life, and Content & substances.
Impact
Environmental impact (€ eco-costs)
Carbon footprint (CO₂-eq kg)
Eco score
Primary data share (%)
In an empty passport, this block shows “Insufficient data” and a link to add footprint data.
Materials
Shows the material composition and percentages. For example: Paper (40%), PE film (20%), aluminium foil (5%), and other components. Packaging layers like Pack, Case and Pallet can also appear with percentages.
When no material information is provided, this block shows “No data provided”.
Circularity & end of life
Here you see circularity and disposal-related entries such as:
Minimised
Recyclable with conditions (including a recyclability grade)
Designed for re-use
Disposable instructions available
Each item can include an Evidence tag. This means that the evidence for this claim is available.
Content & substances
This block shows declarations related to product composition and substances, such as:
PFAS present (with measured values)
Heavy metals
Other substances of concern
Plastic-free
Industrial recycled content (%)
Biobased content (%)
Certified wood (%)
Each line may include an Evidence badge.
Environmental impact
At the top of the Environmental impact section. This is the data that is coming from Pickler's Fast Track footprint calculations. You see four key blocks:
Carbon footprint
Environmental impact (eco-costs)
Eco score
Data quality
Together, these give you the high-level environmental performance of the product before you dive into the hotspot analysis.
Carbon footprint
This shows the product’s total CO₂-equivalent emissions across its entire lifecycle.
CO2- equivalents
You can open the dropdown under the number to translate the footprint into simple real-world equivalents:
Home’s energy use for one year
Kilometers driven
Liters of petrol
Smartphone charges
This helps you make the carbon footprint understandable for non-experts.
Environmental impact (eco-costs)
This shows the total environmental impact expressed in eco-costs. Eco-costs convert all major environmental themes — nature, human health, resource scarcity, climate — into one number. It is a full LCA indicator, going beyond carbon footprint.
Use it to:
Understand the complete environmental burden of the product.
Compare designs or suppliers on total impact, not just CO₂.
See where footprint differences really come from (especially useful when carbon alone is misleading).
Eco score
The eco-score (A+ to G) gives a simple label for the product’s overall environmental performance. It translates the eco-costs per kilogram into a clear score, making it easy to compare products in a fair and consistent way.
How you use it
Communicate environmental performance quickly and visually.
Let customers compare options without needing to understand LCA.
Use as a sorting or filtering tool in catalogues and sales tools.
It helps you tell the “high-level story,” while the hotspot analysis explains why the product has this score.
Data quality
The data quality block shows how the calculation was built:
Primary data – product-specific data directly measured from the source
Secondary data – Data coming from IDEMAT database
Default data – values used to fill data gaps
This shows how complete and specific the product data is. More primary data generally means more accuracy.
How you use it
Identify where you can improve your input data (e.g., end-of-life region, processing energy, units per pallet).
Understand which elements of the footprint rely on default datasets.
Share with customers who want transparency about data sources.
It also highlights any data gaps so you know exactly what’s missing.
Hotspot analysis
The Hotspot analysis in the Product Passport shows what drives a product’s environmental footprint. Instead of only displaying totals (eco-costs, CO₂, eco-score), it breaks the footprint down using a structured, LCA-based view—so you can see exactly where the impact comes from.
This makes it easy to spot improvement opportunities (e.g. switching materials, or optimizing production) and helps you clearly explain the footprint to customers or internally.
Lifecycle overview
The colored bar at the top summarizes the full impact and splits it into four lifecycle stages:
Materials – impact from raw materials
Processing – manufacturing and energy use
Transport – moving final product to end location
End of life – disposal, recycling, or landfill
Filters in the hotspot analysis
The filters let you change how the results are grouped so you can analyze the product from different angles.
View filter
Lifecycle stage (default): groups impact into Materials, Processing, Transport, End of Life. Use this view to understand Where in the lifecycle the impact comes from.
Packaging configuration: groups impact into Product, Pack, Case, Pallet. You use this view to understand how much impact each part of the product causes.
Impact filter
Eco-costs: full environmental impact across all categories. This view also gives you insights in the impact per underlaying impact category.
Carbon footprint: climate impact (CO₂-eq)
Breakdown table
The breakdown table lists every individual process (item) that contributes to the product’s footprint — all materials, process steps, transport legs, and disposal pathways.
This table is the full, transparent “Ingredient List” of the environmental impact.
Each row shows how much a specific part of the lifecycle contributes to the final results in the passport.
You can use this table to:
Identify the biggest hotspot by sorting the table to see which material, process, or transport step drives the most impact.
Find meaningful improvement opportunities by seeing which component changes would actually reduce the footprint.
Verify and explain the results by opening the IDEMAT data sources and showing customers or auditors exactly where each number comes from.
Product Journey
The Product journey shows all processing, transport, and end-of-life locations you entered for the product.
It brings these points together on a map and in a structured list, giving a clear, end-to-end view of the product’s lifecycle.
This view helps you:
Trace the full supply chain from source to disposal
See how many steps and countries are involved
Understand where transport distances come from
It is a transparent summary of the journey behind the footprint — based entirely on the locations you provided in your footprint data.
Reuse & disposal instructions
If reuse or disposal instruction are provided, they show up here. It explains how the packaging should be returned, refilled, separated, or recycled based on your inputs.
Reuse instructions such as return cycles, cleaning steps, or refill systems.
Disposal instructions describing how to sort or dispose of each part of the packaging.
This ensures the Product Passport includes clear, consumer-facing guidance and supports PPWR requirements for reuse and end-of-life information.
Evidence & documents
Shows all available certifications, test reports, declarations, and supporting files you for your product.
These are not uploaded to Pickler, but this indicates that these documents are available and back up the claims shown elsewhere in the passport — such as recycled content, biobased content, hazardous substances, compostability, recyclability, or minimisation.
You can include:
Certificates and lab tests (e.g., FSC/PEFC, DIN CERTCO, EN 13432)
Recyclability assessments
Minimisation documentation
Declarations, such as the EU Declaration of Conformity
This section ensures every claim in the passport is transparent and verifiable, supporting compliance with DPP, PPWR, and the Green Claims directive.
About data holder
Shows who owns and provided the information in the passport.
It includes your company name, logo, description, and sustainability mission — giving customers context about the organisation behind the data.
This creates transparency, builds trust, and helps link the Digital Product Passport to your brand and sustainability commitments.