NEWS · ·That Eric Alper
Indie Labels Launch Recycled Vinyl Series on June 5
Several record labels partnered with environmental organizations to release a collection of albums pressed on recycled vinyl materials.
Secretly Group, Exceleration Music, Warp Records, Ninja Tune, and Beggars Group partnered with Music Declares Emergency and Music Climate Pact for an album collection pressed on recycled vinyl materials. The campaign launched on June 5, World Environment Day, in stores across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The records were manufactured at pressing plants participating in sustainability initiatives.
Raw material for the records is sourced from production trimmings, quality discards, and unsold stock from vinyl manufacturing and distribution. Because the recycled material varies, each pressed copy has a different visual appearance. Ninja Tune head of production Sean Preston stated that the recycled material provides sound quality equivalent to virgin vinyl.
Jagjaguwar is offering Bon Iver's For Emma, Forever Ago and Dinosaur Jr.'s You're Living All Over Me, while Yep Roc Records provides titles by Chuck Prophet and Jeff Austin. Ninja Tune, Warp Records, and Beggars Banquet also contribute releases, and Black Country, New Road chose to press the entire run of the album Forever Howlong on recycled PVC. Secretly Group reported a 70 percent reduction in its production footprint compared to its 2023 baseline, and Beggars Group committed to halving carbon emissions by 2030.
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