New Xbox Controller Is Made From Recycled Outdated Plastic Junk

Microsoft right this moment 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coloured components”, which is a advertising and marketing individual’s means of claiming “we took a great deal of outdated plastic, floor it into tiny particles, made new plastic out of it then used it to assist make this controller”.

That outdated plastic has been sourced from “leftover Xbox One era controller components”, whereas “reclaimed supplies like automotive headlight covers, plastic water jugs,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

There’s an ecological profit to this, after all, but additionally a visible one: these form of “grind” merchandise—that are more and more frequent throughout place, even in clothes—all the time 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 largest fan of the color scheme right here; I get the environmental angle, nevertheless it 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, all the time welcome).

This specific 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 considerations on this specific case ring a bit of hole when most different customary Xbox controllers nonetheless ship with AAs.

It also needs to be famous that solely a portion of the controller is constituted of recycled plastic (33% to be actual, Microsoft tells Kotaku), not the entire thing; although practically 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 can be out on April 18.