Sony Computer Entertainment Europe is finally letting go of the original PlayStation and moving on. It has entered into an agreement with the Electronic Waste Company down in Cornwall to start recycling the cases of its first games console.
In the first year of the deal, some 300,000 cases (250 tonnes) are expected to be processed. What's to become of the once-mighty console? Pens. And chairs. One day in the not too distant future you could find yourself sitting on the mangled corpse of a PlayStation.
SPOnG would like to call this the end of an era, but frankly we're wondering why Sony has that many PlayStation cases sat around gathering dust. It makes the company sound a bit like one of those mental old giffers from A Life of Grime who lives in a house full of toilet roll tubes dating back to 1976...
Still, they won't have been sat there as long as you might expect. Strangely enough, it was only a couple of years ago that Sony actually finally stopped making the console.
Gregor Margetson, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe’s environmental programmes manager, uttered, “The quality of materials produced at this stage of the recycling process is fundamental in enabling PlayStations to be effectively recycled. We work with experts in a number of fields to minimise the environmental impact of our operations and believe the Electronic Waste Company is able to meet our high standards.” Nice, eh?
Anyway, farewell PSOne, we loved ye well.
In the first year of the deal, some 300,000 cases (250 tonnes) are expected to be processed. What's to become of the once-mighty console? Pens. And chairs. One day in the not too distant future you could find yourself sitting on the mangled corpse of a PlayStation.
SPOnG would like to call this the end of an era, but frankly we're wondering why Sony has that many PlayStation cases sat around gathering dust. It makes the company sound a bit like one of those mental old giffers from A Life of Grime who lives in a house full of toilet roll tubes dating back to 1976...
Still, they won't have been sat there as long as you might expect. Strangely enough, it was only a couple of years ago that Sony actually finally stopped making the console.
Gregor Margetson, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe’s environmental programmes manager, uttered, “The quality of materials produced at this stage of the recycling process is fundamental in enabling PlayStations to be effectively recycled. We work with experts in a number of fields to minimise the environmental impact of our operations and believe the Electronic Waste Company is able to meet our high standards.” Nice, eh?
Anyway, farewell PSOne, we loved ye well.
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Daz 14 Oct 2008 12:00
1/4
WHY!!!!!!!!???? why must all good things come to an end? *sobing*it not fair*sobing*
HyperTails 14 Oct 2008 13:36
2/4
Farewell indeed PSOne, it was an amazing console that deserved all the success it recieved.
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deleted 14 Oct 2008 15:41
3/4
ahh the death of a pirates dream, VCD`s and turning your console upside down to makje the laser work, well its time to buy one up ready for when mine breaks, my little lad still plays it now and again, he loves the spyro.
PreciousRoi 15 Oct 2008 01:34
4/4
I wish I still had my old SCPH-1001...I lucked out when I picked that gem up used. I got my laser replaced at some point, but that was a wonder. The RCA jacks, powered RF modulator, and Link port being my favorite features on it, I see the PSOne (as opposed to original PS) as an, admittedly smaller and less ugly P.O.S., like a sports car with an automatic...
SCPH-1001>anything Sony has done since.
SCPH-1001>anything Sony has done since.