AWARD YEAR
2021
CATEGORY
Home
GOALS
Clean Water & Sanitation, Responsible Consumption & Production
KEYWORDS
Washing machine, washing device
COUNTRY
Republic of Korea
DESIGNED BY
KIM, Lee, Park & Han - KAIST
WEBSITE
https://www.jamesdysonaward.org/2020/project/vortex-laundry-water-powered-laundry-kit-for-ledc/
Vortex Laundry Water Powered Kit
Laundry kit needing no electricity, man-power or synthetic detergent
Vortex Laundry is a sustainable, eco-friendly, and economical laundry kit by only using water energy for LEDC. It functions without using electricity, man power, and synthetic detergent.
Using the flow of rivers instead of human power enhance life quality because people can use time more qualitatively than physically doing laundry. It is also eco-friendly because it only uses water energy and ceramic balls to replace synthetic detergent, which does not cause damage to the environment. The price is relatively cheap and cost-effective so that it is in an affordable range. Finally, it can be easily produced and delivered efficiently using as simple mechanisms as possible.
Limited people have access to the electric-powered washing machine. Hence people in LEDC do laundry at the riverside which requires intense physical labor and synthetic detergent cause severe water pollution. We wanted to deliver a design solution for these problems.