Sony Launches Expanded Recycling Program

August 16, 2007 By PETER SVENSSON, AP Technology Writer

(AP) -- Does that Walkman walk no more, or is the original PlayStation now a doorstop? Starting next month, Sony Corp. will take them back at 75 recycling stations around the country.

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