As per The Japan Times, the organisers of Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics 2020 made an announcement that they will make all the medals for the game from the material recovered from electronics.
According to Reuters, People can drop off their old electronic devices in the collection boxes at NTT Docomo telecom stores. With this exercise, the organisers expect to get eight tonnes of gold, silver and copper from various electronic recycled devices. After processing that should yield about two tonnes of purified metal, enough to manufacture the 5,000 medals needed to award athletes of the Olympics and Paralympics.
This step is also a serious attempt of cost cutting. The initial budget of the 2020 Olympic games was three times costly than the 2012 London games, so the organisers had to come up with the new budget of $17 billion.
Japan is planning to make to make their medals completely from the recycled material. But earlier at similar kind of attempt was made at the 2016 Rio Olympics and at the 2010 Vancouver winter games where some percentage of the medals had the recycled metals.
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