Tokyo medals going mobile

MEDALS for next year’s Tokyo Olympics will be made from recycled mobile phones and electronic devices, it was announced yesterday. Nearly 50,000 tons of equipment, including cameras, games consoles and laptops, plus more than five million smartphones, have been collected across Japan in the last 18 months. The Tokyo 2020 slogan, ‘Be Better, Together — for the Planet and the People’, has inspired the campaign. The design of the medals will be unveiled this summer.