GLOBAL CIRCULAR NETWORK

The GLOBAL CIRCULAR NETWORK
Scaling traceable circularity, from fibre to feedstock + Circular Rewards

A B2B RFID Digital Product Passport platform available to businesses that make, move, sort, use and recycle textile based products — built on the UN/CEFACT Global Standard UN Transparency Protocol (UNTP) for verifiable, global data interoperability to collect and share product-only data at scale.

UPSTREAM/BRANDS. Add RFID DPP + identity/compliance + PRODUCT ID (QR/Swing tag) → switch off when with customer, zero consumer data → ♻ DIRECT RESOURCES + REVENUE via OPEN-SOURCE APP → DOWNSTREAM. Extended Producer Responsibility <--> distribute financial Circular Rewards → SORTING. Waste Hierarchy (chemical detection) → END-OF-LIFE. recycle/ remanufacture → CIRCULAR DATA. compliance ♻ next-gen certification → measurable Circular Metrics/Impact → Circular Stories

One tag, one record, item-level data + financial rewards built up over a product's global journey → accessible to every value chain actor via affordable RFID readers and open-source GCN App. Durable, washable, bulk scanning RFID DPPs handle B2B traceability at scale (no line of sight, no personal data ever collected) plus a separate QR code/swing tag shares the Product ID and downstream providers for consumers and creativity to drive circularity.

A step-by-step App to easily scan, access and collect verifiable data to meet existing and upcoming Regulations + Circular Rewards <--> for Brands and free access to downstream value chain actors who want to capitalise on becoming industry leaders and put the economy into circularity.

GCN is a UNTP Registered Software Vendor and EU Commission CIRPASS-2 Expert Working Group Partner · GCN is built to align with the EU's Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) and support the estimated 125,000+ MSME textile-product brands selling products in the EU and around 4,000 brands selling workwear - all who are required to meet emerging standards. GCN helps value chain actors to benefit from a circular economy. Workwear is a particular focus, to share verifiable Substances of Concern data with downstream operators for efficient, safer, certifiable next-gen products.

What are GCN DPPs?

Step 1. Brands or their authorised Product Manufacturers, add the RFID DPPs with traceable upstream data and verifiable evidence - efficiently ticking off regulatory requirements per-item - at-scale. Use RFID from factory to shipment to sale (and returns). Switch DPP off at Point-of-Sale - it only works for B2B. Use single-scan QR Codes for B2C.

Step 2. Open-source - Free access for Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) - authenticate - resell, rent, repair, redesign, reuse. Brands link with downstream partners to collect trusted reporting data plus revenue. Whoever holds the product, with a connected RFID reader in hand, can unlock the GCN DPP's data for free to participate in collaborative circular pathways and share Circular Rewards — scan in bulk or single-items, to access + process product data at scale.

Step 3. Open-source - Free access for sorters and End-of-life providers to bulk scan, identify, verify, detect and divert Substances of Concern, certify next-gen plus offer partnerships with brands so they secure their compliance data - if the product stays local or travels around a global circular economy.

Global Circular Network links upstream to downstream to continuous circular data and collects Circular Rewards
GCN offers affordable RFID tools with downloadable App to link global circularity for clothing, footwear, homewares, mattresses, furniture, etc and help develop agile circular pathways according to verifiable metrics. See the Regulations and Standards the GCN has built towards below.

Circular Rewards. Putting the economy into circularity
By working together Brands and downstream networks can increase profits from recovered resources through Circular Rewards to reinvest in circularity and cooling factories.

Increase ROI, recover revenue and resources + Verifiable reporting data at scale
Brands, manufacturers, Extended Producer Responsibility R-CYCLERS, Producer Responsibility Organisations (PRO), sorters, product remanufacturers and recyclers alongside regulators, collect and share trusted, verifiable product data to prove compliance, reduce waste plus capture mitigation metrics and new revenue via Circular Rewards.

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Digitised B2B circular value chain platform + UNTP + washable RFIDs + RFID readers

GCN's open-source platform anchors an eco-system using the UNECE's United Nations Transparency Protocol (UNTP) to support verifiable global data interoperability.

Affordability and access - key supports for MSMEs. To engage all sized operators, the GCN App can be downloaded to Android and iOS mobiles and link to affordable handheld or fixed RFID readers.

The GCN platform covers the full lifecycle collecting product-only data step-by-step - product creation, verified authentication, Facility credentials, EPR downstream actions, sorting and end-of-life - with Circular Metrics and Circular Stories giving brands trusted, verifiable data for circular reporting and storytelling to engage, educate and inspire consumers.
START NOW with a 100 RFID tags and a handheld RFID Reader Starter Pack.

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Brand Sign up. see how GCN works for DPP Issuers

Design for, and profit from, products of longevity. Issue secure item-level DPPs efficiently at scale + QR Product IDs. Bulk add verifiable, UNTP interoperable data to get ahead of Regulations and turn circularity into measurable ROI through Circular Rewards plus collect downstream reporting data to share trusted Circular Metrics and Circular Stories.

Downstream Network
R-CYCLERS Sign Up for free access and Circular Rewards

Participate and profit from circularity. Save money and time with free access to product authentication and traceable data, bulk add your EPR data and create partnerships with Brands plus share circular stories, detect and sort out Substances of Concern. Increase profits from resource and revenue recovery and collect Circular Rewards.

Sorters + End-of-Life Sign Up
Rewards ingenuity with free access and Circular Rewards

Sort at scale, detect Substances of Concern, certify feedstock and next-gen products. Accurately register the end-of-life and create partnerships to tick off a brands compliance.

Track to local and global markets offering UNTP interoperable data and benefit from Circular Rewards.

'Double security' using Impinj RAIN RFID chips

GCN's RFID tags are independently verified at the chip level offering brands a double-layer authenticity. We decode the tag's factory-set TID directly off the physical chip and confirm it matches Impinj's own published chip architecture, giving each tag a genuine, unclonable hardware identity in addition to its product data.

Combined with RAIN RFID Alliance's global EPC Gen2v2 (ISO/IEC 18000-63) standard, this is the foundation of trusted GCN DPPs.

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For brands: your data, your compliance.
GCN's platform is built to capture the evidence Brands need to demonstrate durability, recyclability, and other sustainability and circularity criteria to regulators.

Brands follow the GCN App step-by-step to add verifiable conformity credentials including confidential IP-protected information on suppliers and product manufacturers, visible only to Regulators or offered via Open Supply Hub.

Built for the regulations shaping textiles - as they stand, and as they emerge. GCN tracks each one and builds the underlying data infrastructure to assist all value chain actors. See what we're addressing today, and what we're already prepared for next.

View the Regulations and Standards we're built for -->

Collaborative circularity at scale
"I don't see any better way to help digitally power the circular economy for textiles.” Peter Majeranowski, Circ

The Positive Impact

Textiles touch almost every environmental system on the planet — and almost none of the data survives past the factory gate. The fashion and textile sector accounts for more global greenhouse gas emissions than international aviation and shipping combined. Its yearly water consumption is the equivalent of 86 million Olympic-sized swimming pools, and every second, a garbage truck's worth of textiles is landfilled or incinerated somewhere in the world. Only 1% gets recycled.

Left unchecked, industry emissions could reach 2.7 billion tonnes of CO₂e by 2030. Supporting the industry to reduce emissions both upstream and downstream will take a unified effort coupled with accountability.

Capturing the EPR actions could result in 11-55 times more emissions mitigation than landfill diversion alone. By adding DPPs that can address this "wicked problem" at scale plus capture accurate metrics, we have a real opportunity to make a profound positive impact for the environment and the people working across these interrelated industries.

An estimated 72–94 million people work in upstream garment manufacturing alone — plus hundreds of thousands more across collection, sorting, resale, repair and recycling once a product leaves the factory. Every one of those B2B touchpoints is a place where product-only data can be captured, trusted and shared.

Capturing verifiable data is crucial to the success of a circular economy. As the EU moves toward mandatory DPPs under a suite of regulations including ESPR, brands will be held accountable for upstream and downstream data collection - and accessible, trusted data is how we can build equitable, impactful systems.

Data is both item-level identity and batch-level. GCN has built the infrastructure to capture that data at scale: verifiable, interoperable and connected all the way from fibre to feedstock, so mitigation and social strategies can be shared and built on evidence instead of estimates.

At that scale, a single-scan QR Code as a DPP tool cannot keep up. QR codes can only verify one product, one line of sight, one scan at a time. To deliver the impact these interconnected, global industries need easy access.

GCN's platform is designed, in particular, for MSME brands and value chain actors. To help meet their regulatory obligations, we need to capture verified data across tens of millions of workers, factories, retailers, EPR providers, sorters and end-of-life solution providers at-scale.

That's why GCN chose RFID as the technology and the UN Transparency Protocol (UNTP) to help scale a collaborative, global circular economy.

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