Tokyo 2020 - Olympic medals made ​​of old smartphones

According to Japanese publication Nikkei , the organizers of the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2020 want to mark the difference to the supply of precious metals that are used to produce the medals. This organization will use the gold, silver and bronze taken from recycled million smartphones (and other small appliances ) that every day are sent to destroy.


These three metals are used for different functions in a smartphone. Since the conductivity of the structure that is molded smartphone, there is enough metal to produce medals . At the Olympic Games in London 2012, it took about 9.6 kg of gold, silver and 1210 kg about 700 kg bronze to produce the medals of athletes.
These figures are nothing extraordinary for the organization, this is because the Japanese record-breaking recycling, recovered in 2014 about 143 kg of gold, 1566 kg of silver and 1,112 tons of bronze , all taken from electronic devices this year . An interesting fact is that the other and the recovered silver account for about 16 % and 22 % , respectively , of the total reserves of these metals in the world.


About 650 tons of small electronic devices and other appliances are discarded each year in Japan. The country, however, can only recycle an estimated less than 100 thousand tons of it. In most cases , the metals recovered from electronic waste are used to make new technological products
Japan recovered in 2014 about 143 kg gold


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