- The Medals for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics are made to be sustainable.
- Recycled materials were used to create the medals.
- The medals were made to look like polished stones.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Tokyo 2020 Olympic medals will be the first sustainable medals made in Olympic history.
The design for the Tokyo 2020 medals is now available for the public eye. The medals used in next years Olympics was created by using recycled materials. More specifically, the medals are made out of mobile phones.
Over 90 percent of cities in Japan donated their mobile phones to help create the Olympic medals. Around 6.2 million mobile phones were used to create these medals. From these mobile phones, 70 pounds of gold, 7,716 pounds of silver, and 4,850 of bronze were extracted. This helped create the 5,000 medals needed for both the Olympics and Paralympics.
This is similar to how Brazil made their medals for the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics. But the 2016 medals were only made of 30 percent recycled materials.
OlympicBettingOdds.com has heard that in the past, medals won in the Olympics have been reported to fall apart. By making the medals out of recycled materials, Tokyo is hoping to make them 100 percent sustainable. Japan also wanted to give all Japanese residents a chance to contribute to the Olympics.