Tokyo Olympics 2020 to use medals made out of recycled e-waste
The Olympic Games 2020 to be held in Tokyo are just one year away. On this occasion the medals of the Tokyo Olympics were formally unveiled on Wednesday. These medals made for the Tokyo Olympics are different and special in their own right. The medals to be used at Olympics 2020 are made entirely from Recycled consumer devices. Their design has also been chosen through a competition. Among which more than 400 people from Japan participated.
Medals made out of smartphones
According to the organizers, this is the first time that sustainable medals have been created. The special thing is that a large number of mobile phones have been used to make these medals. People of Japan donated about 6.2 million mobile phones in two years, out of which 32 kilograms of gold was extracted. Apart from this, they extracted 3.5 tons of silver and 2.2 tons of bronze from the same electronic devices to make 5,000 Olympic and Paralympic medals. To create these medals, the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee had launched a campaign called the Tokyo 2020 Medal Project, in which small electric appliances were collected from the people of Japan. In general this event isn’t just a big thing for the organizers who thought about everything, including those new medals, and the athletes, it’s also a huge thing for the whole Sports industry. A lot of merchandise, and a lot of bets to place on the different games. With over 300 games and thousands of athletes participating, many betting sites allow users to earn from opportunities while enjoying their favorite sports and athletes.
More than 90 percent of Japanese officials attended this whole drive. In which 78 thousand 985 tonnes of abandoned equipment were collected. It included 6.2 million mobile phones, digital cameras, laptops etc. All these electronic devices were melted & decomposed by highly trained contractors. Recycled stuff was also used in making medals of Rio Olympics but not on such a large scale. In it 30 percent of medals were made from Recycled accessories.
Eco friendly Tokyo Games
The organizer’s effort is to make the games more and more environmentally friendly. Uniforms for the Olympic torch relay are also made from Recycled plastic bottles. Even the podium on which players will be given medal in games will also be made of e-waste. For this plastics collected from homes will be used with marine plastic. In this campaign, people have donated 45 tonnes of plastic from their homes. This will create 100 podiums for games.
The XXXII edition of the Games will commence from July 24, 2020 with the closing ceremony being held on August 9.
