A human-scale solution to microfiber pollution: The Cora Ball
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Description
Our Solution: The Cora Ball is a microfiber catching laundry ball. It works in all types of washing machines, is easy to use and easy to clean. It was inspired by nature; coral and sea anemones, creatures who pick small things out of flowing water. That is what the Cora Ball does, it allows water to flow and your clothes to get clean, but catches those little pieces of plastic and fibers before they can flow into our public waterways. As a bonus, it does a great job collecting hair - people and pet hair!
How the Cora Ball works: You just drop it into your washing machine. The principle of the Cora Balls effectiveness is mechanical - the fibers get stuck on the coral-like stalks. Then, the fibers (and hair) on the stalks helps trap more fibers and hair! When the load is done, and depending on what clothes you washed, you will see what look like hairballs in the Cora Ball - they are really microfiber and hair tangled together. You can clean the Cora Ball like you clean a hairbrush - not needed after every wash, but when you see it start to fill up. In addition, our intent is to develop a collection/take back system and find an opportunity to upcycle the fibers.
Our commitment is to bring the Cora ball into the world and as many washing machines as possible and to spread the word about the problem of microfiber pollution and in so doing, inspire innovation from the multiple industries involved (textiles - home textiles and the clothing industry, white goods, wastewater treatment) as well as remind people that their washing machines are a land-sea interface and what goes down the drain can end up in our public waterways. We will give everyone who wears and washes clothes an opportunity to be part of the solution to microfiber pollution and protect our ocean, lakes and rivers.
SDGS & Targets
Goal 14
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
14.1
By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution
14.1.1
(a) Index of coastal eutrophication; and (b) plastic debris density
14.2
By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration in order to achieve healthy and productive oceans
14.2.1
Number of countries using ecosystem-based approaches to managing marine areas
14.3
Minimize and address the impacts of ocean acidification, including through enhanced scientific cooperation at all levels
14.3.1
14.4
By 2020, effectively regulate harvesting and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and destructive fishing practices and implement science-based management plans, in order to restore fish stocks in the shortest time feasible, at least to levels that can produce maximum sustainable yield as determined by their biological characteristics
14.4.1
14.5
By 2020, conserve at least 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas, consistent with national and international law and based on the best available scientific information
14.5.1
14.6
By 2020, prohibit certain forms of fisheries subsidies which contribute to overcapacity and overfishing, eliminate subsidies that contribute to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and refrain from introducing new such subsidies, recognizing that appropriate and effective special and differential treatment for developing and least developed countries should be an integral part of the World Trade Organization fisheries subsidies negotiation
14.6.1
Degree of implementation of international instruments aiming to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing
14.7
By 2030, increase the economic benefits to Small Island developing States and least developed countries from the sustainable use of marine resources, including through sustainable management of fisheries, aquaculture and tourism
14.7.1
Sustainable fisheries as a proportion of GDP in small island developing States, least developed countries and all countries
14.a
Increase scientific knowledge, develop research capacity and transfer marine technology, taking into account the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Criteria and Guidelines on the Transfer of Marine Technology, in order to improve ocean health and to enhance the contribution of marine biodiversity to the development of developing countries, in particular small island developing States and least developed countries
14.a.1
14.b
Provide access for small-scale artisanal fishers to marine resources and markets
14.b.1
Degree of application of a legal/regulatory/policy/institutional framework which recognizes and protects access rights for small‐scale fisheries
14.c
Enhance the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources by implementing international law as reflected in United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which provides the legal framework for the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources, as recalled in paragraph 158 of "The future we want"
14.c.1
Number of countries making progress in ratifying, accepting and implementing through legal, policy and institutional frameworks, ocean-related instruments that implement international law, as reflected in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, for the conservation and sustainable use of the oceans and their resources
SDG 14 targets covered
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| 14.1 | By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution |
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Rachael Miller, Founder/Director
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