23 September 2025
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The Material Passport Ontology (MPO) is an ontology developed for representing material passports of products and components. It is also known as OntoMatPassport.
1.0.0
The organisation responsible for creating the material passport.
creator
An object property referring to the unit associated with a measured value.
hasUnit
An object property referring to the measured value of a quantity.
hasValue
An object property indicating what is described by a material passport.
describes
An object property referring to the chemical composition of a material.
hasChemicalComposition
An object property referring to the collector of a component, product or material.
hasCollector
An object property referring to the country where a manufacturing company is located.
hasCountry
An object property referring to the image of a product or component.
hasImage
An object property referring to the manufacturer of a component, product or material.
hasManufacturer
An object property referring to the material of a component or product.
hasMaterial
An object property referring to a property or characteristic of a component, product or material.
hasProperty
An object property referring to the recycler of a component, product or material.
hasRecycler
An object property referring to the country where a manufacturer, supplier, company or industry is registered.
hasRegistrationCountry
The quantity of heat needed to increase the temperature of a material's unit mass by one unit.
hasSpecificHeatCapacity
An object property referring to the supplier of a component, product or material.
hasSupplier
The locatable address of an image on the web.
URI
The date and time when the material passport was created.
created
A linguistic identity of a product, component, material, or any other entity.
name
The numerical value of a measured quantity.
hasNumericalValue
A narrative or detailed account of a product, component or material.
description
A datatype property that indicates if a product or component has an automatic tracking number in the form of a barcode or any other means.
hasAutomaticTrackingOrScanning
A name that indicates the commercial brand of a product or component.
hasBrandName
A datatype property expressing the European Article Number (EAN) of a product or component.
hasEAN
A datatype property indicating the fraction of feedstock produced from recycled products or components.
hasFeedstockFractionFromRecycledProduct
A datatype property indicating the fraction of feedstock produced from reused sources.
hasFeedstockFractionFromReusedProduct
A property that specifies the reference quantity or unit of measurement for which the environmental impact of a product is assessed, e.g., 1 kilogram of product.
hasFunctionalUnit
The intended purpose of a product or component.
hasFunctionality
A datatype property expressing the Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) of a product or component.
hasGTIN
A document providing an overview of potential risks and hazards associated with the use, handling, storage, transportation, and disposal of a product or component.
hasHazardSummaryDocument
The measured/assessed quantity expressed as a value between 0 and 1 inclusive.
hasIndexValue
A datatype property indicating the measure of how linear the materials of a product are.
hasLFI
A datatype property indicating the measure of how circular the materials of a product are.
hasMCI
A datatype property indicating the mass of a product or component.
hasMass
A string of numerals that expresses the identity of an object.
hasNumber
The numerical value of a measured/assessed quantity expressed in percentage.
hasPercentageValue
A datatype property indicating the fraction of mass of a product collected for recycling.
hasProductFractionCollectedForRecycling
A datatype property indicating the fraction of mass of a product to be reused as a component.
hasProductFractionCollectedForReuse
A datatype property referring to the efficiency of the recycling process applied to the portion of a product collected for recycling.
hasRecyclingEfficiencyForPortionCollectedForRecycling
A datatype property referring to the efficiency of the recycling process in producing recycled feedstock.
hasRecyclingEfficiencyForProducingFeedstock
A number given to a manufacturer when registration is completed with a regulatory body.
hasRegistrationNumber
A character or group of characters indicating the unit of measurement.
hasSymbol
A datatype property indicating the total mass of a product or component.
hasTotalMass
A name that indicates the business or company name.
hasTradeName
A datatype property expressing the Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) of a product or component.
id
Indicates if a product or component is biodegradable or not.
isBiodegradable
Indicates if a product or component is decomposable or not.
isDecomposable
Indicates if a product or component poses any danger.
isHazardous
The version number of the material passport.
version
Material
A visual representation of an inanimate or animate object captured through technological means or drawn by humans.
Image
A thermal property that describes the heat transfer coefficient of an object.
HeatTransferCoefficient
Measure
Quantity
The quantity of heat needed to increase the temperature of a material's unit mass by one unit.
SpecificHeatCapacity
A thermal property that describes the capacity of an object to conduct heat.
ThermalConductivity
Unit
A property expressing whether an object is entirely, partially or not biodegradable.
Biodegradability
A property to express the biological feature of an object.
BiologicalProperty
The total amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted during the raw material extraction and production process.
CarbonFootprint
Chemical composition refers to the arrangement, type, and ratio of atoms in molecules of chemical substances [Chemistry LibreTexts].
ChemicalComposition
A property to express the chemical aspect of an object.
ChemicalProperty
A property that expresses the circular economy aspect of an object.
CircularityProperty
A business, company or entity gathering end-of-life products from another business, company or entity for reuse, recycling, or disposal.
Collector
Part of a bigger whole that can be a system or a product of composite nature.
Component
A property to describe the composition aspect of an object.
CompositionProperty
The resistance of an object to compressive forces.
CompressiveStrength
A property to describe the type and amount of constituent materials belonging to an object.
ConstituentMaterial
A part or component of a bigger whole or component or product.
ConstituentPart
A physical property that describes the density of an object.
Density
A physical propertythat describes the dimension of an object.
Dimension
A quantity that cannot be associated with a unit of measure.
DimensionlessQuantity
A property that expresses the environmental aspect of an object.
EnvironmentalProperty
A temporary property expressing the duration an object may serve its intended purpose.
ExpectedLifetime
The fraction of feedstock from recycled products.
FR
The fraction of feedstock from reused products.
FU
A property that determines the ease and intensity with which an object can ignite and burn.
Flammability
A dimensional property expressing the height of an object.
Height
An entity involved in economic activities, services, or processes related to the production, transformation, distribution, collection, or recycling of goods at an industrial scale.
IndustrialStakeholder
A dimensional property expressing the length of an object.
Length
The proportion of material that moves from its origin as virgin materials to its final state as non-recyclable waste [Ellen MacArthur Foundation, 2015]
LFI
A business, company or entity manufacturing products for the consumer market.
Manufacturer
A physical property to describe the mass of an object.
Mass
A measure of how circular the materials of a product are.
MCI
A passport or document providing identification, physical, temporal, sustainability and other properties of a product or component.
MaterialPassport
An artefact manufactured in an industrial setting to meet the demands of consumers and usually consists of multiple parts.
Product
The fraction of a product collected for recycling.
CR
The fraction of a product collected for reuse.
CU
A business, company or entity recycling end-of-life products to produce recycled feedstock for manufacturing industries.
Recycler
The recycling efficiency of a portion collected from a product for recycling.
EC
The recycling efficiency in producing recycled feedstock.
EF
Any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion [WordNet 3.1]
Resistance
The physical property of being stiff and resisting bending [WordNet 3.1]
Rigidity
A temporary property expressing the duration an object may serve its intended purpose.
ServiceLife
The rigidity of an object to shearing forces.
ShearModulus
The resistance of an object to shearing forces.
ShearStrength
A business, company or entity supplying products to another business, company or entity.
Supplier
A property to express the temporal aspect of an object.
TemporalProperty
The resistance of an object to tensile forces.
TensileStrength
A property to express the thermal aspect of an object.
ThermalProperty
The total mass of waste generated from both the recycling and reuse processes.
W
A property that indicates the degree to which a substance can be harmful or poisonous.
Toxicity
The mass of virgin content in a product.
VirginContentMass
The mass of waste that remains after the recyclable and reusable materials have been separated and that cannot be turned into useful materials.
W0
The mass of waste generated while producing recycled feedstock.
WF
The mass of waste generated while recycling the collected portion of a product.
WC
The total amount of water consumed during the raw material extraction and production processes.
WaterUsage
A dimensional property expressing the width of an object.
Width
The elastic rigidity of an object to stress.
YoungsModulus
A characteristic of an object that can be applied in determining its use in applications.
Property
A political entity associated with a territory considered a motherland to a nation ruled by a government.
Country
A property to express the physical aspect of an object.
PhysicalProperty