While vinyl pellets are shipped in large boxes, it takes only a handful to make a typical record. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Into the mix … PVC pellets used in the production of vinyl records. A group of eight Dutch companies is exploring ways of greening vinyl, by making records from a recyclable, non-PVC material. Yet last October in Los Angeles, at the world’s leading business-to-business conference for plastic music formats, their Green Vinyl Records prototype recordings were laughed at because they sounded “awful” and felt “cheap”. I think back to the strange feel and whine of the recyclable record – it’s now the cosy crackle of PVC vinyl, which indexes petrocapitalism, that I find disturbing.

Source: The Guardian January 28, 2020 12:11 UTC