Many British consumers are selling their laptops online in order to buy the newly released Apple iPad 2.

The new tablet can be picked up online for around £399 for the most basic unit. Anyone that wants the highest specification device will have to fork out as much as £659.

Its no wonder that anyone looking to buy a new iPad 2 is looking to earn extra cash buy recycling their old laptop at recycling sites like WeeeBuy and SpeedSell.

There has also been a massive surge in the amount of iPad’s being recycled for cash now that the latest model is available.

According to recent research more than 1 million iPad 2’s were sold in the US on the weekend it was released.

Recycle your old iPad or laptop for cash at WeeeBuy here