Eco-design & Circularity

Designing Circular Products with Verifiable Data

Circularity is now a core requirement for product sustainability, and companies are facing growing pressure to demonstrate its implementation. Regulations such as the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) and the Digital Product Passport (DPP) require companies to design products for durability, repairability, reuse, and recycling, and supported by reliable, traceable data. At the same time, recycled content and circularity claims are under increasing scrutiny, raising expectations from regulators, customers, and market partners.

At DEKRA, we help organizations translate circular economy principles into practical product design decisions. We support companies in structuring eco-design requirements and data foundations and independently verify circular attributes. This enables compliance, transparency, and credible circular performance.

Your Benefits

Regulatory readiness:

Structured, future-proof approaches help prepare for ESPR, Digital Product Passport and emerging circular economy requirements for product design.

Actionable eco-design decisions:

Clear design levers help improve durability, recyclability and material efficiency across the product life cycle.

Credible recycled content claims:

Independent verification and certification in line with ISO 14021 strengthen trust and reduce greenwashing risks.

Reliable and transparent data:

Traceable, verifiable product documentation supports internal decision-making and builds trust with customers, regulators and supply chain partners.

How We Support You

Designing products for circularity requires more than good intentions. Organizations must align design decisions, understand material flows and product lifecycles, and meet regulatory expectations, while ensuring that circular attributes are supported by consistent data and robust documentation. Preparing for Digital Product Passports and substantiating recycled content claims adds further complexity, particularly when multiple teams and suppliers are involved.

DEKRA supports you with a structured approach to eco-design and circularity. We help organizations integrate circular economy principles into product development by identifying relevant design requirements, assessing material choices, and supporting data structures needed for circular performance and regulatory readiness, including Digital Product Passport (DPP) requirements. In addition, we provide independent recycled content verification in accordance with ISO 14021. Our experts review material flows and supplier documentation to substantiate recycled content claims, helping ensure that circularity strategies are credible, compliant and verifiable.

Why DEKRA?

Independent verification: We provide impartial verification to strengthen the credibility of circularity, transparency and confidence in circularity and recycled content claims.
Deep expertise in circular economy and product sustainability: Our specialists understand eco-design requirements, material flows and recycled content methodologies across industries.
Regulatory- and market-ready results: Our services are aligned with evolving EU circular economy requirements, including ESPR and Digital Product Passport expectations.