Japan taps into recycled phones for Olympic medals

Olympic organisers are soon expected to unveil their plan to be the first games to award medals made entirely from recycled materials.

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0 1. Judge-Jake commented 7 years ago

Fuc a what? O:)
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0 2. thundersnow commented 7 years ago

At the end it'll cost more to pay for the labor to extract those metals than the metal is worth.
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+2 3. Burimi commented 7 years ago

#2 Environment! Recycling! Nature!
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+1 4. thundersnow commented 7 years ago

#3 I'm all for that, the idea is cool, just wondering how they're going to do that.
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0 5. Judge-Jake commented 1 year ago

The way they are going through them, suggests that some of them have more precious metals in them than others. I wonder how many of those those phones are not recycled at all?