AWA Refiners Gaming Console Recycling

What to do with the scrap Gaming PCBs

Gaming consoles contain components that are made of different precious metals, which can be extracted. While some components are useable and can be sold on the market, PCB boards, once deemed useless, typically go in the trash and are considered of no use. Not only is this bad for the environment but it is also a waste when the scrap console or PCBs can be recycled.

The simplest and most common sense thing to do is to recycle your games console. Even if you have scrap consoles or odd parts lying around, it can all still be recycled using our games recycling service.

The Gaming Industry

It is a gamers’ world. Every day we hear more and more about gaming, online gaming and the like. Gamers are everywhere. In fact, the UK’s gaming market is worth 3.6 billion, making it the sixth largest market in the world.

It is a fact that modern personal computers owe many of their advances and innovations to the gaming industry: sound cards, graphics cards and 3D graphic accelerators, faster CPUs, and dedicated co-processors are a few of the more notable improvements.

However, it is common for these gaming consoles, devices and computers to be upgraded often to keep up with current technology and new, improved machines on the market. Gaming technology is developing at a very fast rate. Within the last few decades alone, we have advanced to such expert graphics and the industry shows no sign of slowing down. Hence the need to upgrade your consoles and computers regularly and discarding the old, outdated ones.

Gaming consoles can also simply stop working after a few years and, in some cases, one has to replace parts.

You might be able to sell your old machine, but what if there are no buyers for your gaming console, or it is of no use? In that case, you should consider gaming PCB’s recycling, a technique used to get money off useless gaming consoles.

How big is the gaming industry?

Millions of gaming consoles are sold every year. Can you imagine how many of these end up in landfill causing more pollution and destruction to the planet? In fact every single year we produce a shocking 1.5 million tonnes of electrical waste.

These days technology improves so fast and we are always trying to keep up with the latest specifications and models coming onto the market, so more and more consoles are being made redundant every day.

Recycling of games console PCBs

These boards contain precious metals such as gold, silver and copper, which can be extracted at AWA Refiners. Our gaming PCB boards recycling method is simple:

• Get in touch with us by calling 01279 423 743 to finalize a pickup location. You can also directly mail the units to us.
• Once we get the items, our staff members will inspect them at our in-house facility and prepare a report with all the required details.
• The report is sent to you with a quote. Once we get your approval, we will send you a check for the agreed amount and begin the process.

The amount of gold and other precious metals a board contains depends largely on which gaming console it came from.

We accept all console cards from Xbox to Playstation.

It is often easier to recycle the precious metals from gaming PCUs, than trying to dismantle the individual components for sale. Spending the time to pull off each separate component of the PCB is time consuming and costly, and recycling these components for use again as functional parts is not practical or economical.

This is where AWA Recyclers excel – extracting the useful precious metals for recycling.

AWA Refiners is among the most well-known recycling firms in the UK. Some of our main qualities include:

• Fast Evaluation and Report
• Quick Payments
• Market Competitive Rates
• Trained and Experienced Team
• Eco Friendly Processes

Call AWA Refiners today to know more about gaming PCB boards recycling. Reach us on 01279 423 743 or email sales@awarefiners.com