GLOBAL CIRCULAR NETWORK

GLOBAL CIRCULAR NETWORK
Scaling traceable circularity. Seamlessly connect textile based products to circularity from fibre to feedstock.

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.

A washable RFID tag is slipped into or attached to the product. Unique digital records are created simultaneously in bulk; 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.

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.

DIGITISED B2B CIRCULAR VALUE CHAIN PLATFORM
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. Learn more about UNTP →

CIRCULAR 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.

AFFORDABLE, ACCESSIBLE, EFFICIENT SMART TECH TOOLS + OPEN SOURCE APP
Digital Product Passports for textile and fashion supply chains

Worldwide, most textile and clothing companies are MSMEs; in the 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.
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. Each unique identifier creates a PRODUCT ID for brands to share with customers via QR Code (or NFC) and swing tags.

LEARN MORE ABOUT GCN'S DPP PACKAGES

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. 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.

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.

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

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.

Data hosted in the EU: GCN's infrastructure runs on EU-based data hosting, for a platform built around the emerging EU product regulations, with the ability to expand into other regions and countries.

Reader access: GCN is designed to work with low-cost UHF RFID reader hardware, so the entry cost is a reader, not an enterprise contract.

Works with what you already use: GCN can connect with existing readers and platforms plus works alongside your existing GS1 GTIN — it doesn't replace, issue or validate it.

The platform is designed to connect with Open Supply Hub data and support interoperability with Open Supply Hub production location identifiers (OS IDs). Each manufacturing facility recorded in Upstream and Downstream can be cross-referenced with its OS ID — a free, globally recognised open identifier that links GCN's product-level data to publicly accessible facility records on an independent, open registry, helping support due diligence, human rights disclosure and supply chain transparency efforts.

As UNTP-aligned infrastructure matures across the industry, OS IDs are positioned to help different systems identify and reference the same production locations more consistently, supporting more efficient due diligence.

GCN APP AND PLATFORM DETAILS

View the DPP PACKAGES and contact GCN for futher details.

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Bulk upload traceability data

Authenticate + increase ROI

R-CYCLERS update EPR data

Efficient sort +certify recycling

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

WHY RFID VS QR CODE
GCN's washable RFID tags survive 100-200 wash cycles and enables bulk scanning (eg. scan hundreds of items in a box/pile at once), whereas a QR code is a printed/woven element that can fade, tear, or be removed, and can only ever be scanned one at a time.

QR codes, NFC tools cannot deliver efficient, traceable data capture at scale across global circular value chains for years.

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

PRODUCT ONLY DATA, BY DESIGN. CONSUMER PRIVACY
→ Active in the network → privacy mode at sale → reactivated at take-back → privacy mode again at re-sale, repair etc
The RFID tag access is B2B only, is passive, battery-free - it has no power source of its own and carries no consumer or personal data.

RFIDs are switched OFF into Privacy Mode at sale - its identifier hidden for as long as the consumer owns the product, and is only reactivated when an authorised operator brings it into its next circular pathway e.g. a reseller, repairer or sorter. Sell it again, and it switches off again. The pattern holds every loop of the product's life: visible to the GCN network, invisible with consumers.

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 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 providers receive free access to the GCN App). Discover how RFID readers connect seamlessly to the GCN platform

LEARN ABOUT RFID READERS

Email GCN to request a walkthrough.

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