Tokyo 2020 podiums made from plastic waste, recycled aluminium

TOKYO: While it's a known fact that the medals for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympic Games have been minted from metals extracted from discarded mobile phones and laptops, few would know that the podiums were created using 24.5 tonnes of recycled household plastic waste.

On Friday, the Tokyo2020 Twitter page posted an article detailing the "victory ceremony at the #Tokyo2020 #Paralympics", which said that, "The podiums were created using 24.5 tonnes of recycled household plastic waste, which was donated by people across Japan to show how sustainability in society can be achieved.

"Waste material was also used to make the symbols embedded along the sides. Designer TOKOLO Asao, who also created the Tokyo 2020 emblem, based it on the traditional Japanese chequered pattern, ichimatsu moyo, used aluminium recycled from temporary housing provided in the regions affected by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake," the Tokyo Games organisers explained.

As for the medals for the Paralympic athletes, the organisers mentioned that the design of the medals was based on the idea that to achieve glory, athletes must strive for victory on a daily basis. IANS

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