Olympians at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic games will be receiving recycled trash as their prizes. The environmentally conscious Medal Project is using scrap metals to manufacture the prizes for the upcoming games. In a countrywide effort, citizens within Japan have been donating their consumer electronics directly to the cause. E-waste, waste from dumped electronics is the fastest growing waste problem in the world. According to a U.N report, 45 million tons of electronics were thrown out worldwide in 2016 and only 20% of that waste had been recycled. If you are interested you can read more about this initiative in our article about it.