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What is the most exciting, influential, and long-awaited sports organization? Of course, the Olympics! This excitement storm imposes new goals for the Olympics. It is bigger than sports and always will be. It can even be related to e-waste management!
When the whole world is there and everyone’s eyes are on the Olympics, organizers can draw attention to all the world’s problems with creative messages. This is exactly what we saw in Tokyo in 2020, where the environmental moves of the 2000s Olympics peaked.
Tokyo Olympics had an outstanding performance in recycling and sustainability. Especially the e-waste project was a remarkable success. At the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, all these efforts and competitions were rewarded with chunks of metal representing hard work, ambition, and dreams. But these medals contain more than gold, silver, and bronze colors. Let’s find out!
Before the Olympic game-planning started, the organizing committee had a vision for a game-changing mindset. They wanted to draw attention to the ongoing hazardous activities in our world and the efficient recycling solution to them. This resulted in the Tokyo Olympics Medal Project, a vision never seen in the Olympics. Tokyo Olympics medal design was entirely based on a sustainability vision. Thus, the medals’ components were as important as the Tokyo Olympics medals by country 2021.
The ultimate aim was to make all of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 medals out of recycled e-waste materials.
Between April 2017-March 2019, The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games carried out an important milestone for the project. Recyclable e-waste, including used cell phones, was being collected all over Japan.
The numbers show that around 78,985 tons of e-waste were collected and proceeded. Which approximately contains:
Then, all of these were smelted into the most memorable and outstanding awards of the last two years. Beyond this, the leading medal winner Tokyo Olympics was the environmentalist committee!
This organization was a game-changer in most fields, the medals at Tokyo Olympics were just the most vivid ones. For example, did you know the bed frames at the Olympic village were made out of cardboard and recycled at the end of the games? The mattresses were also recycled into plastic materials to help continue the vision and mission.
Apparently, these projects contained a vital message within them. Why let the waste go to waste when you can use waste management to satisfy your needs? Instead of using limited resources and creating more waste, upcycling what is already produced is much more sustainable.
Some see waste as useless but it can be transformed into something useful, a shiny medal in the Tokyo Olympics case. The logic behind the circular economy transition is simple, one person’s waste can be another person’s treasure. Hopefully, the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games will influence sustainability projects and e-waste recycling and management in the world. Consequently, it inspires all kinds of organizations to sustainable and innovative waste management solutions. In the case of hi-tech in waste management, Evreka comes in as a global waste management company for sustainable growth!
Evreka has a broad understanding of the importance of e-waste management and recycling. We bring you both hardware and software-based solutions, depending on every use case. The technology and setup of e-waste management requirements can be provided to you with efficient step-by-step solutions. Quick onboarding processes and system adaption comes with all-accessible technical support.
As Evreka, we emphasize the importance of management and recycling of e-waste for the Earth’s all resource and climate crisis. Our cutting-edge waste management solutions give you the chance for:
You can regain all the usable materials at the highest value to use or sell to end-buyers. Therefore, risks to the environment and human health are eliminated. With Evreka, e-waste is not a painful problem, a road for sustainable development!
Want to follow the path Tokyo Olympics raised? Then, for further information on efficient e-waste management, contact us today or book a demo.
