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 officially gone live.
If you have a recent Raspberry Pi, you can participate
The recycling center will be located in the Sony Technology Center in Wales, and there all the plates will be analyzed to decide whether they are reused or recycled. The accepted plates are 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, since since 2012 they have been sold 40 million Raspberry Pi worldwide, 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 reducing resource consumption by not buying a new board.
At that Sony plant they are currently manufactured 15,000 products related with Raspberry Pi every day, including the motherboards 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 board works, remove the microSD card, and register on the website of the OKdo Renew program. There you will receive instructions on how to pack the order and the shipping label. In return, participants will receive a 10 pound discount code (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 UK at the moment, but in the coming months it will be available to users all over the world. world, including Spain. Also, shipping costs are free for orders over 25 pounds.