09. Februar 2019  
Tokyo, JPN  
Artistic Gymnastics

Tokyo 2020: From discarded Electronic to Opympic Medals

Tokyo’s organizing committee for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games has announced that it’s expecting to meet its targets for a plan to make athletes’ medals out of discarded electronics.
The committee says that there was “huge levels of support from the public and companies across Japan and from national and international athletes” resulting in municipal authorities collecting about 47,488 tons of e-waste.That figure includes more than five million disused phones that were handed and placed in post offices and other public buildings.These ambitious and environmentally friendly intentions were published two years ago already ...:
 


The committee’s target from two years ago of 2,700kg of bronze was met in 2018 June already, while 93.7 percent of the 30.3kg gold target and 85.4 percent of the 4,100kg silver target had been extracted by October 2018.
The targeted amounts of gold and silver haven’t quite been recovered just yet, but based on the number of devices that have already been collected, the Tokyo 2020 committee says there will be enough material to reach the goal. The program will end on March 31st, and the Olympic and Paralympic medal designs will be revealed in summer of the pre-olympic year 2019.