An Olympic ‘GOLD’ – Using Innovation to promote sustainability
The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) conducted the “Tokyo 2020 Medal Project”. This project was to extract gold and other metals to produce the Olympic and Paralympic medals. Small electronic devices such as used mobile phones were collected from all over Japan. Every single medal that was awarded to athletes during the Tokyo 2020 Games was made from recycled metals. 100% of the metals required to manufacture the approximately 5,000 gold, silver and bronze medals were extracted from the E-waste. TANAKA Holdings Co.Ltd signed…
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