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[2801-14-05] The Meaning of 2020 Tokyo Urban Mined Olympic Medals

○Kohmei HALADA¹ (1. Sustainability Design Institute)

Chairman:JI Whan Ahn（KIGAM）, Richard Alorro (Curtin University)

Keywords:urban mine, Olympic medal, small size electric households, sustainability

The 2020 Tokyo Olympic organizing committee has determined to make medals from urban mined metal. This is the attainment of the movement of Japanese citizns and recyclers, and the achievemnet of Japanese promotion of sound circulation society. 27% of gold, 42% of silver and 17% of cupper is produced from secondary raw material, and 214 kg of gold, 2563kg of silver and 1469 tons of cupper is recovered only from small size electric households. This presentaion covers the progress of small electric household recycling in Japan, and the prehistory of the fulfillment of the urban mined medal, including the reactions of citizns about urban mine medal. The significance of the urban mined medal for sustainable development goals is also ascertained from both viewpoint of sustainable resource management and of the prevention of E-waste. Futhermore, the development for the future will be discudssed. It is important to succeed to the next and further next Olympic. And, it is also important to apply to local events , not only Olympic games, inorder to widen the activity of recycling deeply into the local community.