Called the Tokyo 2020 Medal Project, the initiative aimed to salvage precious metals such as gold, silver and bronze from mobile phones and other small electronic devices.

• The medals in the 2020 Tokyo games will be made from recycled electronic gadgets
• The committee in charge of the project aims to produce approx. 5000 medals for the Olympic and Paralympic games.
• By October 2018, the committee had collected approximately 47,488 tons of small electronic devices, including mobile phones.

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https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/feb/08/olympics-medals-recycled-gadgets-electronic-waste