Friday, 8 February 2019

Tokyo 2020 Olympic medals will be made from electronic waste

Winners at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games will be awarded medals made from recovered ...

As we replace old gadgets with the latest new and shiny, discarded tech can become a massive waste problem. Electronic waste can be quite valuable though, and there have been a number of projects aimed at recovering precious metals from e-trash. Now it appears that Olympic winners in 2020 will be awarded medals made from smashed up phones and cameras.

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from New Atlas (Gizmag) http://bit.ly/2Gx8mfo

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