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Tokyo 2020 Olympic Medals to Be Made of Recycled Cell Phones and Laptops
Runner's World ^ | July 26, 2019 | Andrew Dawson

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 begun—and 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 one—from Japanese designer Junichi Kawanishi—was 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 ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Computers/Internet; Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: 2020olympics; environment; japan; medals; oceanwaste; olympics; plastics; recycling; tokyo; waste
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Go for the Trash!?


21 posted on 07/29/2019 6:53:56 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The internet has driven the world mad.)
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To: Rebelbase

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.


22 posted on 07/29/2019 7:07:56 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Where does it say in the Constitution anyone is entitled to the property another has labored for?)
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To: Yo-Yo
Olympic Gold medals are required to be made from at least 92.5% silver, and must contain a minimum of 6 grams of gold.

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.

23 posted on 07/29/2019 7:13:16 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Who's the leader of the club that feeds on dead babies? M-O-L... O-C-H... M-O-U-S-E.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

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.


24 posted on 07/29/2019 7:25:41 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: al baby

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.


25 posted on 07/29/2019 7:50:44 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

Kent Steffes team mate Karch Kiray


26 posted on 07/30/2019 1:31:50 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: al baby

That name rings a bell for sure. If I didn’t see him play the day I was there, I saw him play on the tv coverage.


27 posted on 07/30/2019 3:33:59 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Typical. They reduced the size and made them look ugly.


28 posted on 07/30/2019 3:54:04 AM PDT by Tallguy (Facts be d@mned! The narrative must be protected at all costs!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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?


29 posted on 07/30/2019 5:25:58 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: trebb

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.


30 posted on 07/30/2019 7:03:59 AM PDT by Openurmind
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To: FreedomPoster

He also was introduced by Newt at the Republican National Convention 96 and he spoke for a bit


31 posted on 07/30/2019 7:12:00 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: Openurmind

Cool info - nice to have such an array of experience on FR...Thank


32 posted on 07/30/2019 9:20:09 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: al baby

Nice! Newt was my Congressman for quite a few years.


33 posted on 07/30/2019 9:53:19 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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