Olympics: Tokyo 2020 looks to meet target of recycled metal for medals

The organizing committee for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics said Friday it expects to achieve its target of recycled metals needed for the competitions' medals by March.Next year's medals will be made in part from metal from recycled cellphones and small electronic devices. At the end of October, the project had collected 93.7 percent of the necessary gold and 85.4 percent of the silver required.The program to extract metals from recycled items began in April 2017, and by the end of last June, the target of 2,700 kilograms required for bronze medals had been achieved.But at that ju…READ FULL ARTICLE