The Tokyo Olympic 亮飛organizing committee會音 said it will recycle mobile pho知爸nes and other smal科了l electronic devices to extract preciou著近s metals and use th也些em to make "environmental MEDA一鐵LS," the BBC reported.

The 2020 organizing 花匠committee decided on the above m分人easures on Tuesda煙音y, the report said, adding that新日 the slim measures will be機鄉 announced later.The "2020 Gold Rus笑的h" project was launc我靜hed by Aichi Prefecture's Shigakuika慢大n University, Aichi Prefecture's Op說月hu City and Renet Recycl靜暗er.

Hideto Okumura, mayor of Ophtha那聽lu, has called for MEDA雨亮LS to be made f說通rom recycled metal to show the world J多自apan's recycling technology and environ如樂mental efforts, the Asahi Shim草爸bun newspaper reported暗湖.Japan is said to waste 650,000 tonne志下s of mobile phones and 新海other small electronic devices each 南睡year, and it is believed that 280秒議,000 tonnes of u民錯sable metals such 是友as gold, silver, copp些亮er and steel could be extracted from t討分he waste, known as "urban mines".

At a press conference in late明舞 October this year, promoters of議商 the project unveiled t愛的he prototype of a six-centimeter-d拍照iameter bronze medal, made of silver an錯分d covered in gold.多廠The MEDALS are made 司地from precious metals extracted from s道家alvaged computer equipment可的, with a total 分訊of six grams of recycled gold.