Textile EPR, the Digital Product Passport and the new limits on green claims all ask the same thing: what is in this garment, who made it and what it
Pull from your ERP and PLM, bills of materials, mill and dye house records, and supplier questionnaires, across every brand, collection and legal entity. Electricity, gas and water invoices are read automatically, including the total amount and currency. Every figure stays versioned and traceable, from the group number down to a single fabric order.
Dyeing and finishing in your own facilities are Scope 1. Mill and store electricity is Scope 2. Fibre production, spinning, weaving, making-up, inbound and outbound logistics, the use phase and end of life are Scope 3, which is typically more than 95% of a fashion brand's footprint. Dcycle calculates all three per style, per supplier or at group level.
Life cycle assessment aligned with ISO 14040 and 14044 and the EU PEF method, from fibre to finished product: raw material, spinning, weaving or knitting, wet processing, making-up, transport, use phase and end of life. This is the number a buyer asks for, the number a green claim has to rest on, and the number a product passport will carry.
Fashion chains run four or more tiers deep, and the emissions and the water sit in the tiers you do not contract directly. The supplier portal sends each tier the request that fits its process, validates what comes back and consolidates it into your Scope 3 with full traceability. You manage the gaps rather than chasing every supplier.
Water per kilogram of fabric, chemical use in wet processing, recycled content, mono-material share and units placed on each market. These are the metrics EPR fees, the ESPR data set and any durability or recyclability claim are built on, tracked per line instead of estimated once a year for a report.
The same data answers your EPR return, the product-level data set the ESPR and the Digital Product Passport will require, the substantiation behind every environmental claim, CSRD and ESRS double materiality with XBRL output, EcoVadis and ISO 14064. Collect once, report everywhere, and have the evidence ready when a buyer or an auditor asks.
70–75%
reduction in time-to-report
x3
increase in data coverage
<11 months
to payback
Almost none of this waits for a company to be big enough for CSRD. What binds this sector binds by what you put on the market and by what you say on the label, so a 200-person brand is inside the same rules as a group of 5,000.
No legal threshold, and it lands before any regulator does. The buyer needs a figure per style for their own Scope 3, plus composition, country of origin at each stage and increasingly a tier map. A corporate footprint does not answer it. A footprint per garment does.
The directive on empowering consumers for the green transition bans vague claims such as eco-friendly or conscious without substantiation, and bans claiming a product is climate neutral on the strength of offsetting. This is the rule that turns a marketing decision into a data requirement, and it does not care how many people you employ.
The EU has made textiles a mandatory EPR stream, and Spain already requires separate textile collection. You pay by what you place on the market, and fees are being designed to scale with how the product is made, so recycled content, fibre mix and recyclability move from a marketing line to a cost line.
The ecodesign framework is already law. The textile-specific requirements and the passport itself arrive with the delegated act, and what they will ask for is product-level: composition, durability, recycled content, substances of concern and supply chain origin. The companies that will not scramble are the ones already collecting that per style.
The EU forced labour regulation lets authorities pull a product from the market on evidence that forced labour was used anywhere in its chain. For textiles that means fibre origin, which is usually three or four tiers away from the brand. The defence is documented traceability, built before anyone asks.
Most fashion brands and textile manufacturers sit well below this threshold after the Omnibus revision, so CSRD reaches them as their customer's questionnaire rather than as their own report. The large groups that are in scope draw double materiality under ESRS from the same product data everything else here needs.
External verifier
250+ employees"You have so much traceability that I start clicking around and get hooked on checking things. It is wonderful."
Sustainability team
500+ employees"This is incredible. It is nothing like anything we have seen until now."
ESG director
5,000+ employees"The dashboard is really good, it is wonderful, and much more visual."
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