GCN is a whole-systems platform for circular collaboration at scale, built on UNTP data architecture. Three principles guide it:
Eliminate
Waste and pollution.
Circulate
Products and materials.
Regenerate
Nature.
Founder
Alison Jose spent over a decade in sustainable textile supply chains across India, Indonesia, China and Germany before founding GCN. She built Australia's first circular textile waste service in 2019, and developed CircStretch — a bio-stretch textile reducing plastic in performance garments — in 2020, which is when she recognised DPPs needed to be built in from the design stage, not bolted on after.
Built to
- Collect zero consumer data
- Scale to high volume
- Integrate human workforces alongside technology
- Stay affordable for MSMEs