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posted by cmn32480 on Thursday February 02 2017, @09:43PM   Printer-friendly
from the better-than-in-the-landfill dept.

Tokyo Olympic organisers on Wednesday called on the Japanese public to donate old smartphones and other old electronic devices to help make medals for the 2020 Games.

In a push to give the Olympics an environmentally friendly hue, Tokyo's organising committee is aiming to collect eight tonnes of gold, silver and bronze at recycling bins across Japan from April, officials said, to make 5,000 Olympic and Paralympic medals.

Tokyo 2020 said e-waste such as digital cameras, laptops and games units can also be donated at collection boxes in more than 2,000 stores of mobile phone giant and Olympic sponsor NTT Docomo.

Recycled metals have been used in previous years to make Olympic medals, including in Rio last year where the silver and bronze medals were 30 percent made from recycled materials.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 03 2017, @01:44PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 03 2017, @01:44PM (#462351)

    Dear Olympics® supporters,

    The Committee is especially desirous of the following mobile handsets: