Medals for the 2020 Olympics will be made from recycled electronic devices, the Tokyo Organising Committee has announced. It comes after millions of smartphones and tons of old digital products were donated. Nearly 50,000 tons of devices, including cameras, games consoles and laptops, plus more than five million smartphones, were collected for the Old Metals New Medals project across Japan over 18 months since it opened. Some 2,700kg of bronze had already been extracted by June 2018 and by October there had been 28.4kg of gold and 3,500kg of silver extracted from the donations. The medal designs will be unveiled in summer 2019.

Source: The Irish Times February 08, 2019 13:51 UTC