Tokyo Olympic Games.. Medals Recycled from Electronic Wastes

By:

Menna Seliem

CAIRO, Feb. 23 (SEE)- The Olympics and Paralympics Games in Tokyo organizers announced that every medal to be distributed, will be recycled from electronic wastes.

Japan started

a new project in 2017 to collect all the electronic wastes which included

mobile phones and laptops. About 30 kg of gold, 4 kg of silver, and 3 kg of

bronze were collected from these wastes.

The organizing

committee confirmed that they are about to reach the required target, as they

collected all the amount of bronze, 90% of gold, and 85% silver.

Last

November, the committee collected about 47 thousand tons of the electronic

wastes. 5 thousand tons were mobile phones which the citizens gave to wastes

companies.

The

organizing committee is scheduled to reveal the shape of medals later on this

year.

The committee

said in a statement "We are waiting to collect the rest amounts of minerals

made of the electronic wastes that citizens disposed."

It worth

noting that about 30% minerals used in making medals in last Olympics Games in

Brazil were recycled from electronic wastes.