Sony Computer Entertainment Europe is finally letting go of the original PlayStation and moving on. It has entered into an agreement with the Electronic Waste Company down in Cornwall to start recycling the cases of its first games console.

In the first year of the deal, some 300,000 cases (250 tonnes) are expected to be processed. What's to become of the once-mighty console? Pens. And chairs. One day in the not too distant future you could find yourself sitting on the mangled corpse of a PlayStation.

SPOnG would like to call this the end of an era, but frankly we're wondering why Sony has that many PlayStation cases sat around gathering dust. It makes the company sound a bit like one of those mental old giffers from A Life of Grime who lives in a house full of toilet roll tubes dating back to 1976...

Still, they won't have been sat there as long as you might expect. Strangely enough, it was only a couple of years ago that Sony actually finally stopped making the console.

Gregor Margetson, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe’s environmental programmes manager, uttered, “The quality of materials produced at this stage of the recycling process is fundamental in enabling PlayStations to be effectively recycled. We work with experts in a number of fields to minimise the environmental impact of our operations and believe the Electronic Waste Company is able to meet our high standards.” Nice, eh?

Anyway, farewell PSOne, we loved ye well.