Circularity Declaration Software for EU ESPR Compliance

Under the EU's Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), products sold in Europe must meet quantified circularity thresholds — minimum recycled content percentages, repairability scores, durability ratings, and end-of-life recyclability metrics. The European Commission's Green Claims Directive simultaneously makes it illegal to advertise "recyclable" or "circular" without independently verifiable evidence. For product teams, this creates a documentation requirement that sits between engineering (design-for-disassembly specs) and compliance (regulatory declarations).

Circularity evidence is inherently cross-functional. Bill-of-materials data comes from engineering. Recycled content certificates come from material suppliers. Repairability information requires input from after-sales and service design. Durability test reports originate in quality labs. Without a single system of record, these inputs scatter across departments and become impossible to audit when a market surveillance authority or retail buyer requests proof behind a circularity claim.

Sustalium connects these inputs into one declaration record per product. Engineering uploads disassembly instructions and material composition data. Procurement attaches supplier recycled-content certificates. Quality links durability test results. The declaration auto-populates from this evidence, producing both a public-facing circularity page that satisfies the Green Claims Directive and the machine-readable data fields that Digital Product Passports require. When a product revision changes a material or supplier, the platform flags which declaration fields need updating.