Circular Rewards

Putting the economy into circularity.

GCN doesn't set or collect Extended Producer Responsibility fees — that sits with national regulators, outside our platform (Eg EUs Waste Framework Directive - see SOURCES). What Circular Rewards is built to do is help offset those costs: by increasing a Brand's return from its existing garments through better data, and by making it easier for Brands to form direct partnerships with Downstream providers who use GCN's app and RFID readers — so both sides benefit from the same system.

Every verified circular event generates trusted data and, where applicable, a financial return — through five pathways: resale, rental, redesign, reuse, repair.

Two flows

Circular Design Reward
Downstream business → Brand. Triggered by a verified resale, rental, reuse or redesign event. (Repair doesn't trigger this — it's a direct transaction between repairer and consumer.)

EPR Reward
Brand → downstream provider. Applies to all five pathways, including repair. Funds the transport and logistics of diverting by-product resources to sorters and recyclers. Repairers scan for free as their service to brands, and can separately opt in to a Diversion Reward for their own scrap. 

Diversion Data

Bulk-scan consolidates textile and chemical data plus batch weight onto one new RFID tag per batch. The sorter/recycler's scan on receipt is the verified event that substantiates the EPR Reward payment.

This is a GCN initiative, not a government scheme — voluntary and complementary to your regulatory EPR obligations, not a replacement for them.