Open Products Facts use cases

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Circular toolkit

Repair

  • What kind of screws and/or screw drives or other tools are needed

Reuse

Maintain / Optimize

Display category specific information to extend the lifespan of your product/reduce its energy consumption

Digital twin of your possessions

Allowing to list your possessions, within your home/work

  • Listing your possessions
  • Unlock a raft of useful features in order to:
    • incentivize listing possessions
    • incentivize data addition
    • generate usage datasets
  • Simplify and defragment
    • your ownership experience
    • your circular journeys
  • Providing ego-boost around circularity

Product recalls

Collecting data

... about circular behaviours + durability

  • Understanding which products are “value” vs “performance” vs “durability”
  • Correlation between perception and recorded lifespan in a few years

... with precise and helpful facts without advertising language

  • which may raises awareness why it is as useful/nice (or not)
  • to help those who want to have/buy or give away/sell a product, but do not know enough about it
  • know about variants of a product, for example available sizes of shoes and colors of a T-shirt
  • narrow down or identify the date the product became publicy available (e. g. easy for books, not so much for clothes)

Spare parts

  • Spare part lookup
  • Spare part compatibility

Warranty check

  • Showing legal and extended warranties
  • Turning warranty from something theoretical to something practical
  • Aggregating information on product lifespans

Circular alternatives

  • Allowing users to discover more earth friendly ways to fulfill their needs
  • Showcasing leasing/sharing economy options

(Circular) Karma for you and your objects