In Brazil, when vinyl was still printed over here, we could find two
methods of vinyl recycling in the market - both were anti-ethical and
practiced by the mainstream music industry. One was the recycling by
melting broken, defective or unsold records. So, when people wanted
their records printed on virgin good quality vinyl, they had to ask
for coloured vinyl. The other consisted in the scrapping of the
groove surface of unsold records and reprinting over. The result:
thin records with crappy sound. Sometimes we could hear the sound of
the old groove in the gaps, like the sound of a distant baddly tunned
radio station.
I don't think the shrinking printing industry is looking for recycled
vinyl, once they have to maintain the quality of the sound to stay
alive. Maybe there's some new technique that makes recycled vinyl
sounds as good as virgin vinyl – wich would be a good thing.
Unapropriate disposal of vinyl can cause a lot of damage.
Kw
On 07/04/2008, at 14:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Odd question (and I can't remember if I asked it before on here):
Was it just Trax (and presumably a few other similar shady ops
back then) that used to melt old records down for new pressings?
Or is (was) this common practice? I ask as
1. I have a cupboard full of an overrun on a 12" from years ago
that I need to chuck out. I'm big on recycling and would love it if
the plastic could live again (hopefully with something much better
stamped on) rather than just putting them out for dumping.
2. Having started to think about it I'm curious as to any history
anyone knows on this practise anyway.
