Vancouver 2012 Medals to be Made From Recycled Material
Medals for the Vancouver 2012 Olympics will be made from recycled electronic waste.
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The medals will be produced by Teck the exclusive medal producers who will use gold, silver, and copper from recycled TV’s, computers and keyboards that would’ve ended up in a landfill.
There will be 1000 such medals produced by Tech for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic games. It is an olympic first, these medals will be made of the circuit boards of electronic waste, which contains tiny fragments of gold, silver and copper for electric conduction.
In Olympic history, the medals are conventionnaly made with raw material extracted from the earth, and refined for commercial use. Teck has created a process where metals present in cathode ray tube glasses, computer parts and circuit boards.
To make the medals, the metals recovered will then be mixed with various other metals, the metals that have been recovered from e-waste represent: Gold: 1.52%, Silver: 0.122%, Copper: 1.11%.
The medals are being produced by the Royal Canadian Mint, and features aboriginal artwork made by Corrine Hunt, an aboriginal artist.
