The Tokyo Paralympics of 2020 pledges to construct medals of gold, silver and bronze from re-used products
Well, it might seem a bit distant, but the
Earth is genuinely looking forward to survive another couple of years.
The idea to reduce, re-use and recycle is
common nowadays, but nobody seems to care that much. Nevertheless, people have
put in efforts to save the world. The Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics of summer2020 pledges to construct medals of gold, silver and bronze from re-used
products like laptops, phones, computers and other gadgets.
People discard these e-gadgets in an
unfashionable manner, hence, causing health hazards. The Officials, however,
have said that they will be able to collect enough electronic devices that are
obsolete and of no utter use, and use them to make gold, silver and bronze
medals. They are working really hard on it, because they don’t have much time,
and aim to collect all these e-wastes by March 2020, so that the medals for the
summer event is ready.
The organizing committee for the Olympics have
proudly announced that they have already collected tons of junk ( almost
approximately 47488 tonnes ) and have been able to extract almost 30 kilograms
of gold, 2700 kilograms of bronze, and 4100 kilograms of silver.
On top of this, devices are being donated too,
from which metals are being extracted. Most of the metals have already been
collected, and the remaining extraction will be completed soon by March 2020.
The most happy thing about this project is
that it is mass participation. People are literally donating consumer
electronics to help in this recycling movement. Maybe, even they realise that
it is important after all, to save Mother Earth. Otherwise we all are going
down at once.
This whole project was launched in 2017, and
the majority of work has been done within November-December 2018.
The local Japanese companies and industries
are helping on this process.
This concept is not very new, though. In the
Rio Olympics 2016, this process was tried out, and it turned out, that 30% of
the gold, silver and bronze medals were made from recycled metals from disposed
electronic wastes like, laptops, cameras, smartphones, so on and so forth. This
time, they plan on making it a full 100%, which is a wonderful initiative. We
could try doing good bit by bit, and we could totally begin with a large event
like the Olympics.
We hope to save Mother Earth from the disaster
that is doomed to come.
The Tokyo Paralympics of 2020 pledges to construct medals of gold, silver and bronze from re-used products
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July 18, 2019
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