Next Summer, the top athletes in the world will compete in the Tokyo Olympics and those who come out on top will receive the ancient game’s first 100 percent recycled medals. The gold, silver and bronze medals will all be made from metals recycled from old cell phones, computers and other electronic waste. The Olympic Committee selected artist Junichi Kawanishi’s design out of over 400 entries. They then spent the next two years collecting almost 79,000 tons of gadgets, including more than...
from Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building https://inhabitat.com/tokyos-olympic-medals-will-be-made-from-recycled-phones
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