Tokyo’s organizing committee for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games has announced that it’s expecting to meet its targets for a plan to make athletes’ medals out of discarded electronics.
The
committee says that there was “huge levels of support from the public and
companies across Japan and from national and international athletes” resulting
in municipal authorities collecting about 47,488 tons of e-waste.
That figure
includes more than five million disused phones that were handed in at NTT
Docomo stores. Collection stations were also placed in post offices and other
public buildings. The committee’s target of 2,700kg of bronze was met last
June, while 93.7 percent of the 30.3kg gold target and 85.4 percent of the
4,100kg silver target had been extracted by October.
The targeted
amounts of gold and silver haven’t quite been recovered just yet, but based on
the number of devices that have already been collected, the Tokyo 2020
committee says there will be enough material to reach the goal. The program
will end on March 31st, and the Olympic and Paralympic medal designs will be
revealed this summer.
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