Raspberry Pi are one of the best things that has happened to technology in the last decade. With a very low price, anyone can have a computer at home, in addition to using it to learn to program or automate all kinds of things. However, if you are buying more and more recent models because you need more power (to play, for example), the previous ones may stay in a drawer. Now, you can upgrade to a new discounted model by delivering the old one.
This is the promotion announced by the Raspberry Pi Foundation on its blog, in collaboration with the Okdo store . This company has created, together with Sony, the first official Raspberry Pi recycling plant, called OKdo Renew . The initiative was announced in July, and has now been officially launched.
If you have a recent Raspberry Pi, you can participate
The recycling center will be located at the Sony Technology Center in Wales , where all the boards will be analyzed to decide whether to reuse or recycle. The accepted boards are the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B, Pi 3 Model B + and Pi 4 , and if they are still working properly, they will be repackaged using environmentally friendly materials, and will be sold at a lower price as refurbished.
Plates that cannot be re-sold will be processed on-site to minimize contamination. This is an important step, as 40 million Raspberry Pi’s have been sold globally since 2012, and most are still working properly. Many users who do not need a lot of power can simply buy a reconditioned board and save money and reduce resource consumption by not buying a new board.
In that Sony plant, 15,000 products related to Raspberry Pi are currently manufactured every day, including the boards themselves used by developers, young people, or those who simply want to have a cheap computer at home to work, to use as a NAS, as a multimedia center, or as a console to run emulators.
£ 10 off future orders
Participating in this program is very simple. You just have to see if your motherboard works, remove the microSD card, and register on the OKdo Renew program website . There you will receive instructions on how to pack the order and the shipping label. In exchange, participants will receive a discount code of 10 pounds (12 euros) to spend on orders over 15 pounds (17.5 euros) on the OKdo.com website.
The money from the discount coupon can be spent on anything on the web, be it a more powerful Raspberry Pi or accessories for Raspberry Pi The program is only open to the United Kingdom at the moment, but in the coming months it will be available to users around the world. world, including Spain. Also, shipping costs are free for orders over 25 pounds.
