Recycle your old Sony consoles, Sony requests

by Nick Doerr @ on Aug 17th 2007 10:30AM

If you've still got that off-white, sorta gray UFO-looking thing known as the original PlayStation, what're you thinking? Sony's got a great program going on to help you get rid of that junk and trade it in for ... peace of mind. Isn't that enough? You've got to think green! There are 75 official Sony recycling centers around the country (they partnered with Waste Management, Inc., so we're guessing those recycling centers and Sony's are one in the same) and each of them want to give your old products a second life.

It's a cool program, but right now, the recycling centers seem arbitrarily distributed: 17 in California, 19 in Minnesota, 1 in New York and 32 states missing them completely. Sony intends to have doubled the number next year and assures us they plan to have a center "within 20 miles of 95% of the US population". If they can do that, good for them. So, how many of us are sitting on nearly-dead consoles of the past? We know our PS2 is still kickin', but barely.

[Via Joystiq]