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Vancouver Winter Olympics 2010’s medals are made from recycled e-waste. If you are wondering, all internal electric contacts on a chip is gold, silver is used for many parts on the PCB and bronze can be found in plenty as copper (coils) and tin (solder is tin)
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February 17th, 2010 at 3:27 am, GMT +0000 ( 1266377226 )
Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games winners get medals fashioned out of End-of-life electronic waste
February 17th, 2010 at 3:56 am, GMT +0000 ( 1266379017 )
This year’s Winter Olympic medals made from recycled electronic waste
February 17th, 2010 at 4:08 am, GMT +0000 ( 1266379681 )
The medals for 2010 Vancouver winter games are recycled from old circuit boards…
February 17th, 2010 at 4:30 am, GMT +0000 ( 1266381035 )
Vancouver Olympics incorporate e-waste to make the medals.
February 17th, 2010 at 6:01 am, GMT +0000 ( 1266386475 )
The Vancouver 2010 medals are made using recycled electronic waste.
February 17th, 2010 at 6:11 am, GMT +0000 ( 1266387065 )
The Vancouver 2010 medals are made of recycled e waste
February 17th, 2010 at 6:23 am, GMT +0000 ( 1266387817 )
The 2101 Winter Olympics medals are all “Green medals” since they include small amounts of metals recycled from e-waste.
But they’re still the butt-ugliest Olympic medals, ever.
February 17th, 2010 at 6:32 am, GMT +0000 ( 1266388321 )
Each medal was made with a tiny bit of the more than 140,000 tons of e-waste..
February 17th, 2010 at 7:12 am, GMT +0000 ( 1266390738 )
recycled electronic scrap will be used to make the medals awarded during the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics as well as the Paralympics Winter Games
http://www.recyclingtoday.com/.....mpics.aspx
February 17th, 2010 at 8:10 am, GMT +0000 ( 1266394225 )
The Vancouver Olympics Medals were made from recycled e-waste.
February 17th, 2010 at 8:34 am, GMT +0000 ( 1266395672 )
vancover olympic medals made from metal from waste electronic products
February 17th, 2010 at 8:40 am, GMT +0000 ( 1266396000 )
Canadian Aboriginal designer and artist Corinne Hunt, along with designers from the Royal Canadian Mint, Teck Resources Limited and VANOC, made these medals for the Vancouver olympics from recycled electronics.
February 17th, 2010 at 8:59 am, GMT +0000 ( 1266397165 )
Winter Olympic medals made from recycled e-waste
February 17th, 2010 at 9:12 am, GMT +0000 ( 1266397969 )
Vancouver Olympics medals (pic below) manufactured from e-waste (pic below)
February 17th, 2010 at 9:40 am, GMT +0000 ( 1266399646 )
The Vancouver olympic medals are made from recycled electronic waste.
February 17th, 2010 at 9:59 am, GMT +0000 ( 1266400792 )
circuit board metal
February 17th, 2010 at 11:12 am, GMT +0000 ( 1266405148 )
Vancouver 2010 medals made from e-waste
February 17th, 2010 at 12:11 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1266408679 )
The Vancouver Winter Olympic medals are mainly made with materials coming from end-of-life electronics. Teck Resources, a Vancouver-based diversified metals company, supplied the materials
February 17th, 2010 at 2:33 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1266417217 )
The Medals of Vancouver, made only from the Finest Discarded Circuit Boards
February 17th, 2010 at 4:18 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1266423498 )
the gold, silver etc. in the vancouver olypmpics medals was from e-waste
February 17th, 2010 at 5:24 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1266427482 )
After shredding, separating and heating end-of-life electronic components, the byproducts are combined with other metals to create the 2010 Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic Medals.
February 17th, 2010 at 8:10 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1266437439 )
The connect is the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. The medals for the event have been made from e-waste.
February 17th, 2010 at 11:56 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1266450967 )
Medals used in the 2010 Vancouver Olympics will be made from e-waste.
February 17th, 2010 at 11:58 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1266451085 )
The Vancouver medals are from recycled waste
February 18th, 2010 at 7:57 am, GMT +0000 ( 1266479870 )
The Vancouver medals have metals recovered from e-waste
February 18th, 2010 at 8:35 am, GMT +0000 ( 1266482132 )
After shredding, separating and heating end-of-life electronic components, the byproducts are combined with other metals to create the 2010 Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic Medals.
February 18th, 2010 at 11:24 am, GMT +0000 ( 1266492288 )
medals made outta e-waste?
February 18th, 2010 at 7:41 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1266522073 )
As part of Canada’s effort to reduce its e-waste, each Olympic medal given in the ongoing Winter Olympics was made with a tiny bit of the more than 140,000 tons of e-waste that otherwise would have been sent to Canadian landfills.
February 18th, 2010 at 11:28 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1266535710 )
the medals of vancouver winter olympics ‘10 are made from discarded computer parts
February 19th, 2010 at 5:33 am, GMT +0000 ( 1266557591 )
Medals for Vancouver 2010 are made from e-Waste
February 19th, 2010 at 9:22 am, GMT +0000 ( 1266571362 )
Vancouver Games medals are being made from scrap circuit boards.