Sony offers free recycling for their products

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Sony announced today that 75 recycling stations around the country will [Only registered users can see links. ]. So if your PS2 finally succumb to "disc read error" and you're moving on to the PS3, you can give your beloved console a second life somewhere else. Sony's program is better than electronics giants like Apple, Dell and Hewlett-Packard's programs because Sony partnered with trash company Waste Management Inc. which has recycle drop off centers. With those other companies you'll have to mail the item back to company -- and if you're anything like us, you probably haven't seen the inside of a post office since Daddy Bush's administration.

The bad news is that the 75 stations are currently unevenly distributed across the country, with 17 in California, 19 in Minnesota, 1 in New York and none in 32 states. But hey, wait now, that's not Sony's fault. They plan to double the number of centers in a year and ultimately have a center "within 20 miles of 95 percent of the US population." Sony is just full of [Only registered users can see links. ] today -- oh, and don't forget, once you've got a PS3 you can help [Only registered users can see links. ].

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[Bex]

Or sell it on ebay and make a bit of money?
Even broken PS2s ya get money for on ebay lol

Ahh, i'll have to do that anyway, cuz theres none in the UK

[Momma Bear]

Oh I could sell my 1.5 CF PSP on Ebay.....it has only a broken fuse for the backlight. I think. I never thought about that. But what if I could get someone to fix it for me?

Or they could refurbish the "free" item you dropped off and resell it