Going for the (Recycled) Gold.

• Position: OLYMPICS - Brief article

Winners at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo will receive medals unlike any other. They'll still look like traditional gold, silver, and bronze awards--but they'll be made out of metals extracted from recycled electronics. Since April 2017, Japanese residents have been donating their old cell phones, laptops, and other gadgets. Now the Tokyo 2020 Medal Project says it's collected 47,488 tons of discarded devices--which might have contaminated soil or groundwater with toxic chemicals, such as lead or mercury, if thrown...