Textile Materials Information for Digital Product Passport Implementation in the Textile and Clothing Ecosystem: The Role of Raw Fibres in a Substantial Transition

The Textiles and Clothing sector is increasingly focused on transitioning towards circular production, with industrial companies striving to integrate sustainable practices. Achieving this goal can involve rapidly adopting innovative materials, meaning using innovative raw ones and maximising the use of recycled and recyclable fibres. This implicitly means acting on the total transparency of information along the entangled supply chains in this sector. It is precisely this complexity that hampers efforts to track and disclose material usage accurately. To address this issue, this paper presents a systematic literature review to explore the main challenges in adopting technologies like digital product passports, which can help track materials information along supply chains to support sustainable transitions. The review's findings are discussed, focusing on identifying key material-related data that should be monitored to ensure responsible material use and strengthen sustainable production practices in the textiles and clothing sector to guarantee control over the use of materials and prevent their early dismissal.