The winners at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics would be wearing medals that contain gold, silver and copper recovered from e-waste, reports indicate.
According to a report in Discovery News, the metal supplier, Teck Resources, recycled household appliances, electronics and cables and recovered metals from computer parts and circuit boards through smelting.
World Standards For Processing and Disposing E-Waste Needed Urgently
Experts behind the world's first international e-waste academy have said that processes and policies governing the reuse and recycling of electronic products need to be standardized
Experts behind the world's first international e-waste academy have said that processes and policies governing the reuse and recycling of electronic products need to be standardized
The medals are also the first non-flat medals. They are wavy to represent the waves of the ocean and mountain snow drifts.
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"Self- Healing" Plastic May Facilitate Recycling Of E-Waste
Scientists in The Netherlands are reporting development of a new plastic with a self-healing polymer that has potential for use in the first easy-to-recycle computer circuit boards.
Scientists in The Netherlands are reporting development of a new plastic with a self-healing polymer that has potential for use in the first easy-to-recycle computer circuit boards.
Precious Materials Out of Toxic E-waste
Japan is trying to change an environmental problem into an economic advantage by mining mountains of toxic e-waste for precious materials.
Japan is trying to change an environmental problem into an economic advantage by mining mountains of toxic e-waste for precious materials.
Demonstration Against E-waste in Delhi
Activists of environmental pressure group Greenpeace, Delhi, staged a demonstration against e-waste which creates environmental hazards.
Activists of environmental pressure group Greenpeace, Delhi, staged a demonstration against e-waste which creates environmental hazards.
