Rio 2016 medals to contain recycled metal

Next year, Brazil will receive the most important event of sports in the world, the Olympic games. This event had born at Greece in VIII B.C, but just in 1894 it turned an official event with rules and a especial staff. However, nowadays the Olympic games movement a lot of money and makes a whole country work together to do everything perfectly. Last week Brazil noticed a break through in its games. The medals, the most important Game`s symbols will be manufactured with a special reused materials like old pieces of computers and electronic trash. The medals will be developed by designers at the Brazilian Mint, which was established in 1694. Made of gold, silver and bronze, the award medals will also include metal derived from items ranging from household appliances, like fridges and microwaves, to IT equipment, such as personal computers and mobile telephones, illustrating Rio 2016's commitment to sustainability, officials claimed. Each medal will be made of a different kind of material and work. When they will be produced, they will have different weights and spend much time , for example the gold and silver medals weigh 412 g, while the bronze weighs 357g. They were the biggest and heaviest Olympic and Paralympic Games medals ever made, being 85 millimeters in diameter and ranging in thickness from eight to 10mm. The biggest benefit about all this work is to prove how we can use our technology and our minds to improve important and traditional things like The Olympics

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