Phones Become Olympic Medals

When the 20 20 Olympics take place next summer in Tokyo Japan, they’ll need around 5000 medals to hand out to winners. The Tokyo 2020 Medal Project, was created to collect phones and electronics, to recycle into medals. They extracted 71 pounds of gold, 7,700 pounds of silver, and 4,580 pounds of bronze from 158,000,000 pounds of donated electronics. Wow!

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