GLOBAL CIRCULAR NETWORK

GLOBAL CIRCULAR NETWORK
Scaling traceable circularity. Seamlessly connect textile based products to circularity from fibre to feedstock. Enabling an accessible data-driven circular economy at scale.

Global Circular Network (GCN) is a B2B RFID-enabled Digital Product Passport (DPP) platform, built for businesses of any size, who make, move, sort, use and recycle textiles. Built on the United Nations Transparency Protocol (UNTP) framework for verifiable global data interoperability.

GCN uses RFID (Radio-Frequency ID tags) for efficient industrial-scale B2B data capture technology and QR Codes for Product ID as they QRs require a direct line of sight only scanning one product at a time and best used for customer engagement.

A washable RFID tag is slipped into or attached to the product. Unique digital records are created simultaneously in bulk (by brands, their authorised product manufacturers or GCN's Circular Data Centres); adding data upstream and then seamlessly collects bulk data at every later stage when it re-enters the circular B2B network — from brands and manufacturers through to a downstream network of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) engaging resellers, repairers, redesigners and upcyclers first, before moving on to sorting at scale, with verifiable data to certify remanufacturing and recycling feedstock.

One tag, one record, built up over the product's global journey - accessible to all value chain actors via affordable RFID readers and the GCN App.

BUILT FOR THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE CIRCULARITY HAPPEN.

A DPP is only as valuable as the circular actions it can efficiently connect and the verifiable data it can collect. Accessible to downstream businesses and organisations of any-size for free.

GCN gives downstream operators a digital connection to the products entering their facilities and networks.

EPR & COLLECTION - the centre of circularity. Identify products entering the circular system, access traceable upstream data and record their onward pathway.

RESELLERS & REUSE

Connect products to verified resale and reuse events, extending product life before recycling.

REPAIRERS & REDESIGNERS

Record interventions that extend or transform the life of existing products.

SORTERS

Identify products plus Substances of Concern and capture sorting outcomes at operational scale.

REMANUFACTURERS

Connect recovered products and components to verified remanufacturing pathways.

RECYCLERS

Capture material recovery and certify recycling feedstock.

THE RESULT

Instead of circularity ending with a sustainability claim, the circular action becomes part of the product’s digital history.

That creates trusted data for:

Compliance → EPR → Circular Metrics → Circular Stories → Financial Rewards → Measurable environmental impact.

GCN is designed to make the circular economy operational, measurable and financially connected.

GCN's platform isn't a consumer app, the tag switches off while a product is with a consumer, so no personal or purchase data is ever collected — only verified product and circular data. It is used by brands to offer customers PRODUCT ID via single-scan QR Codes plus add traceable product data and efficiently communicate with a downstream network via RFID collecting verifiable data at scale.

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

The platform covers the full lifecycle — product creation, verified authentication, Facility credentials, downstream tracking, sorting and end-of-life recycling — with Circular Metrics and Circular Stories giving brands trusted, verifiable data for circular reporting and customer-facing storytelling.

INCREASE ROI + VERIFIABLE REPORTING DATA AT SCALE
Brands, manufacturers, EPR R-CYCLERS, Producer Responsibility Organisations (PRO), sorters and recyclers alongside regulators, will need trusted, verifiable product data to prove compliance, reduce waste and capture new revenue from circular business models.

By working with together Brands and Downstream Partners can increase profits through Circular Rewards.

DIGITISED B2B CIRCULAR VALUE CHAIN PLATFORM
The Global Circular Network offers smart tech tools and collaborative interconnected platforms to foster global circularity for clothing, footwear, homewares, mattresses, furniture and develop agile pathways according to verifiable metrics.

The UNTP data framework is to scale unambiguous full circularity traceability and transparency plus support the UN’s SDGs, regulatory compliance and industry integration.The UNTP offers trusted global data interoperability and efficient inter-industry collaboration empowering value chain actors to create a financially sustainable circular economy at scale.

GCN is a UNTP Registered Software Vendor and an Expert Working Group partner to the EU Commission's CIRPASS-2 programme and is built to align with the EU's Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) ahead of it becoming mandatory for textiles. See UNTP FAQs to learn more →

AFFORDABLE, EFFICIENT SMART TECH TOOLS + OPEN SOURCE PLATFORM
Download the GCN App to connect every actor in the textile lifecycle + purchase, rent or link existing UHF RFID readers to join the circular economy network.

Global Circular Network links upstream to downstream
GCN offers RFID smart tech tools and a collaborative interconnected platform to link global circularity for clothing, footwear, homewares, mattresses, furniture and develop agile pathways according to verifiable metrics.

RFID VS QR: WHY THE TOOLS MATTERS
A QR code is a printed image -- nothing stops it being copied, damaged, or swapped for a different one. GCN's washable RFID tags carry something a printed code architecturally cannot: a permanent, factory-set chip identity that's physically inseparable from the tag itself, checkable alongside the product's data to detect a copied or swapped item.

GCN uses both. RFID handles B2B traceability throughout a product's life -- bulk scanning, no line-of-sight needed, surviving hundreds of industrial wash cycles. A separate QR code (and NFC) carries the consumer-facing Product ID, added to the product or its swing tag, so customers can access verified product information with a simple phone scan. Learn more about how GCN's washable RFIDs for B2B and QR Codes for Customer Product IDs.

Digital Product Passports for textile and fashion supply chains

Worldwide, most textile and clothing companies are MSMEs; in Europe its 99.8% of brands and nearly 89% have fewer than ten employees.

As regulations grow, the DPP requirements can easily apply per product using GCN's RFID tags and app to place products on the market — they don't scale down because a company is small. Most MSMEs don't have a compliance team to absorb that. GCN is built and priced so the platform carries the product-level data work, so a five-person brand can meet the same standard as a five-thousand-person one.

CONNECT B2B PLATFORMS TO SHARE CIRCULAR DATA. GCN links upstream to downstream to capitalise on full circular data collection by accessing circular pathways at scale.
Brands with existing software accessing supply chain management, Lifecycle Assessment Platforms, etc can connect to GCN through API's. Third-party platforms can connect with GCN to share data for increased efficiency. Through "digital bridges" we link closed and open source platforms plus decentralised and centralised databases.

LEARN MORE ABOUT GCN'S DPP PACKAGES

Discover the GCN App and platform.
THE FIVE CIRCULAR ROLES

DPP Issuer / Brand - Creates and owns the product passport
Facility: mill, trims supplier, product manufacturer - Contributes production data and conformity credentials (product manufacturers are able to populate DPPs with an Issuer's authorisation)
Downstream: EPR, Producer Responsibility Organisations (PRO) and reverse logistics providers - FREE ACCESS FOR EPR PROVIDERS: adding data showing the heart of circularity - supports product life extension first before remanufacturing and recycling
Sorters - Grades, checks for Substances of Concern flags, records sorting outcome
End-of-life - recycling (certify feedstock)

Engages all value chain actors who require trusted, verifiable product data to prove compliance, reduce waste and emission plus capture new revenue from circular business models via CIRCULAR REWARDS.

Through API's third-party platforms connect with GCN to share data for increased efficiency and connect closed and open source platforms plus decentralised and centralised databases.

GCN APP AND PLATFORM DETAILS

INCREASE ROI AND VERIFIABLE REPORTING DATA AT SCALE
GCN supports MSME brands - offering an affordable, efficient RFID-enabled DPP platform that lets brands comply with regulations, protect customer privacy, connect to Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) operators plus recycling systems and collect trusted circular data and metrics showcasing the product's complete lifecycle.

Recovering value, not just tracking upstream traceability or waste: GCN's purpose is recovering value via downstream value chains: resale, repair, redesign, remanufacture, recycle. Recycling is the last resort, not the goal. Verifiable product data — not self-declared claims — is what makes that hierarchy translate to trusted data showing positive financial, environmental and social impacts.

Use GCN's interlinked smart system to divert valuable textiles from landfill, meet emissions targets, regulations and recover ROI with CIRCULAR REWARDS.

GET AHEAD OF UPCOMING REGULATIONS

Brands who want to show verifiable product data on DPPs, Product IDs and share their Circular Stories can work with GCN to get ahead of upcoming regulations and support their products' place in a circular economy — including the EU's Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) and similar frameworks emerging globally. Apparel delegated act is expected in 2027, with an 18-month transition. First obligations might realistically hit 2028/2029 collections.

Using the Global Circular Network's App and the United Nations Transparency Protocol (UNTP) data architecture for global interoperability, GCN offers ways for brands and industry to get verifiable data onto washable RFID tag DPPs - at whatever scale fits your business.

Add R-cycling data as an easy 'in' and 'out'

Efficient sort +certify recycling

LEARN ABOUT RFID READERS

AFFORDABLE RFID READERS TO SUPPORT MSME AND EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE

Purchase, rent or connect compatible commercial UHF RFID readers already deployed across manufacturing, warehousing, logistics and retail. Existing RFID infrastructure can generally read RFID tags without costly upgrades, reducing implementation costs and accelerating DPP adoption.

New to RFID? Affordable handheld readers linked to Touch Computers or your own Android or iPhone are also available, making it easy for businesses of every size - especially MSMEs and Not-for-Profits, to participate in Circular Business Models - supporting brands using GCN RFIDs to collect trusted, bulk product data from day one. (EPR, sorters end end-of-life providers receive free access to the GCN App). Discover how RFID readers connect seamlessly to the GCN platform

Explore DPP Packages → purchase RFID tags and readers, download the GCN App, and populate your own DPPs.

Learn about Circular Data Centres → let GCN populate and verify your data at scale, or coordinate data collection across your whole industry association.

View the DPP PACKAGES and contact GCN for futher details.

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COLLABORATIVE CIRCULARITY AT SCALE.
"I don't see any better way to help digitally power the circular economy for textiles.” Peter Majeranowski, Circ

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