Alison Jose (Joe-s) leads Global Circular Network (GCN), a groundbreaking Digital Product Passport EPR Platform featuring RFiD THREADS®, the world’s first washable, bulk-scanning RFID embedded in a single thread, which stays with each product to deliver full, collaborative circular economy (CE) solutions. Alison serves on the CIRPASS-2 Expert Working Group and partners with Nordic Circular Hotspot to drive CE initiatives forward.
With over 9 years of experience in textile supply chains as the founder of STSC Sustainable Textile Supply Chain, Alison has worked with mills in India, Indonesia, and China to promote sustainable textile production. After receiving a NSW EPA grant, she pioneered Australia's first Circular Textile Waste Service in 2020, marking a significant milestone in her shift toward the circular economy.
Global Circular Network connects brands with the resource recovery sector, enabling B2B collaboration, product traceability, verifiable authentication, and lifecycle data that support usability, durability, and recycling. RFiD THREADS® empowers brands with real-time data, expediting product circularity and inter-industry inclusivity and equity. The tool helps brands increase ROI through returns, resale, rent, repair, and repurpose, with recycling and regeneration as the final stages.
RFiD THREADS® connects both new and quality-recovered products to the cloud platform, supporting a variety of sectors, including apparel, footwear, and mattresses. The system seamlessly can integrate with a brand’s SCM and then becomes open-sourced to engage “R-Cylers”, sorters and recyclers to support data capture, product longevity, resource recovery and a financially sustainable circular economy.
A unique QR Code for B2C enhances engagement and education, connecting EPR and Product Stewardship Schemes to holistic circularity.
The tool and EPR platform can connect products to Doughnut economics through LCA platforms. It can add opportunities for consumers and brands to divert funds to doughnut incentives. Purposefully designed diversions can support local and global economic initiatives including Project Drawdown microgrid projects that directly lower emission hotspots for this industry and support people and planet.
Industry participants are encouraged to join the 100 Million Threads Project and attach donough economics platforms via a "digital bridge".
Our aim is to assist redistribution of capital as we capture lost revenue from the new reverse logistics value chains being created. Especially connected to the EU's Cirpass-2 mandatory legislation requiring textile-based products to include a DPP showing it meets the Eco Design for Sustainable Product Regulations by 2030.
https://www.globalcircularnetwork.com
STSC Eco Textiles and CircStretch eco-stretch knit textiles for Activewear www.stscecotextiles.com
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