New Xbox Controller Is Made From Recycled Outdated Plastic Junk

Microsoft at this time introduced a brand new and really cool Xbox controller: the “Remix Particular Version”, which is (partly, no less than) made up of recycled plastic.

Being launched to coincide with Earth Day celebrations, this controller is made from “post-consumer recycled resins with regrind consisting of beforehand molded coloured elements”, which is a advertising particular person’s means of claiming “we took a great deal of outdated plastic, floor it into tiny particles, made new plastic out of it then used it to assist make this controller”.

That outdated plastic has been sourced from “leftover Xbox One technology controller elements”, whereas “reclaimed supplies like automotive headlight covers, plastic water jugs, and CDs” have additionally been dumped into the combination.

There’s an ecological profit to this, in fact, but additionally a visible one: these sort of “grind” merchandise—that are more and more frequent throughout place, even in clothes—at all times characteristic one-of-a-kind designs, because the combine of colors and particles is totally different for every controller.

I don’t know if I’m the most important fan of the color scheme right here; I get the environmental angle, but it surely additionally jogs my memory of a child’s cutlery set from IKEA (although the wooden grain sample down the grips is, like wooden grain in any online game console or controller, at all times welcome).

This explicit controller additionally ships with Microsoft’s Xbox Rechargeable Battery Pack, so that you simply don’t want to make use of disposable batteries, although the corporate’s environmental issues on this explicit case ring a bit of hole when most different normal Xbox controllers nonetheless ship with AAs.

It also needs to be famous that solely a portion of the controller is comprised of recycled plastic (33% to be precise, Microsoft tells Kotaku), not the entire thing; although almost all recycled plastic merchandise do that, and the determine is usually a lot decrease (in Adidas’ case, for instance, it has generally been…0%)

The “Remix Particular Version” will retail for USD$85, and will probably be out on April 18.