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Japan recycled nearly 80,000 tons of cell phones and other electronics to make the medals for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympicshttps://www.businessinsider.in/miscellaneous/japan-recycled-nearly-80000-tons-of-cell-phones-and-other-electronics-to-make-the-medals-for-the-2020-tokyo-olympics-and-paralympics/slidelist/70368188.cms2019-07-24T22:24:19+05:30

Japan recycled nearly 80,000 tons of cell phones and other electronics to make the medals for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics

Jul 24, 2019, 22:24 IST

In two years, Tokyo 2020 extracted enough metal from old gadgets to make approximately 5,000 Olympic and Paralympic medals.

The recycling process included dismantling and sorting the gadgets ...

... as well as smelting and refining their parts until they turned into this: usable metals. In the case below, gold.

Eventually, that gold would turn into this: the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic gold medal.

It's hard to believe the Tokyo 2020 medals started off as just a pile of old tech.

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