Posted on 07/29/2019 5:24:46 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
As we hit exactly one year mark until the opening ceremony of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, the countdown has begunand with that, the unveiling of the medals that the best athletes in the world will take home next summer.
The medals boast the classic designs that fans see every four years as stipulated by the Interantional Olympic Committee, according to Tokyo 2020: Nike, the Greek goddess of victory; the name of the host city; and the five Olympic rings.
What makes these medals special to Japan, though, is the public input and assistance that went into their creation.
For starters, the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games began the medal-making process with a design competition. More than 400 entries were submitted, but only onefrom Japanese designer Junichi Kawanishiwas chosen for the design of the roughly 5,000 medals for the Games.
Once a design was set, they needed metals to create the gold, silver, and bronze prizes. Japan took a sustainable route for this: In April of 2017, they began sourcing metals from recycled and used cell phones, laptops, handheld games, and cameras for the medals.
(Excerpt) Read more at runnersworld.com ...
Go for the Trash!?
Yea, but recovering the tiny amount of gold from electronics is not cost efficient. Still, it they want to pay for it, more power to them.
Which makes that new habit of biting your gold medal to test it even sillier. You might scratch the gold plate but you'll break your teeth on the silver.
I think they’ve never been solid gold or silver. Maybe bronze.
There was one game where it appeared a good chunk of it was glass, with just an inset of gold/silver/bronze.
I may have seen him play, I went to that event one day. The Brazilian women (really all the women) were nice to watch play, and their fans were just a hoot, a lot of fun.
Kent Steffes team mate Karch Kiray
That name rings a bell for sure. If I didnt see him play the day I was there, I saw him play on the tv coverage.
Typical. They reduced the size and made them look ugly.
Wonder how much cost and effort, and how many devices, are required to salvage the metals needed...do folks even have specific recycling centers for this any more or was it not cost effective?
If you are set up to process in quantity, the average content “per ton of boards” is the same as high grade ore. Especially if you are collecting all the metals, lead, copper, Palladium, silver, gold...
I’m actually on a project to do this right now using a flail crusher and a water/gravity shaker table system.
He also was introduced by Newt at the Republican National Convention 96 and he spoke for a bit
Cool info - nice to have such an array of experience on FR...Thank
Nice! Newt was my Congressman for quite a few years.
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