Medals for Tokyo 2020 to be made from recycled metals and mobile phones

The forthcoming Tokyo 2020 Olympics in Japan will be one of its kind, thanks to the deliberate policy by the island country in East Asia to conserve the environment.

Perhaps unbeknownst to athletes who hope to be decorated in the biggest global showcase, the medals will come in form of weird devices mainly those recycled to restore natural environments in Japan.

During a zoom press briefing   presided over by Arata Yuki, Senior Director of sustainability Tokyo 2020, every single medal of Gold, Silver and Bronze to   be awarded to athletes will be made of recycled metals including mobile phones.

For starters, and in a move that might appear odd to participants, the organizers conducted the 2020 Medal Project to collect small electronics devices such as used mobile phones all over Japan to produce the Olympics and Paralympics medals. 

Further, the podium will be made of recycled plastic and will be the first of its kind in Olympics and Paralympics history and it shall present a new medal for a sustainable society.

The general public in Japan participated in a project to collect used plastic marine debris which were recycled to produce the podium.

In the meantime, during a media briefing, journalists were updated with what to expect during their coverage including unearthly construction of the Japan Museum, that was constructed from timber, and is envisaged to attract thousands of visitors.

During the briefing, the scribes were told that the museum was constructed from trees grown from seeds planted in the town of Engaru in Monbetsu County in Hokkaido during the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games.

This historical site that has attracted cultural interest is located in Shinjuka, one of the 23 city wards in Tokyo. 

The Japanese are also proud detailing past Olympics they have successfully including spectacles which might come in handy for those studying history.

For instance, the bullet train in the country was unveiled in the 1964 Olympics, so was the satellite Broadcast where helicopters were used to shoot the action. 

One of the subsequent Olympics torches was light by a Mr. Sakai who was born when the atomic bomb dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.