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Optimal Media "Goes Green"—Now Offers "Carbon Neutral" Pressing Option
The eco-friendly package includes records pressed from 100% recycled vinyl (not used records, but using "flash"—the vinyl trimmed following pressing), packaged in FSC-certified, 100% recycled board and packaging. There's an option to fully compensate for carbon emissions and make the entire package carbon neutral.
The Röbel, Germany-based company claims it took more than a year and half's research to calculate what it would take to achieve this, including data connected to raw materials manufacturing, transportation of finished goods and a whole range of considerations most of us probably wouldn't think of considering.
Optimal says sound quality is comparable to "virgin" colored vinyl with each record being unique because of the way the "flash" is recovered and re-used. Black records are also offered using "flash" from black records. Optimal claims "climate-neutral production and shipping with ClimatePartner, offset printing with plant oil-based inks, FSC-Certified paper and cardboard from sustainably managed forests and other forward looking production features.
According to an Optimal spokesperson, it's the first and only pressing plant in the world capable of achieving these worthy goals. If you are going to "go green", you might as well consider "pressing green"!
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They are fully compostable and the jacket is impregnated with wildflower seeds.
...where they got that extra "c".
Hope it was a carbon-neutral source!
It seems to me we are not talking about melted down Bic pens, but flash from a pressed record, which is already formulated. We know when vinyl is to be made into records things are added to make a certain formulation for records.
ha ha, the minute I saw the article I thought "this has to be Germany". I could have been wrong, but wasn't in this case.
Leave it to the Germans to figure this out, we certainly can't. If you can do it without crazy loss of quality, why not?
Remember … the planet will be uninhabitable in less than a decade. Seems like a lot of wasted effort since we’re all doomed.
I know! Those people in that part of the country are the WORST.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUrNrZqb1kw
Just kidding!
Sheesh...
"I wouldn't live there if you paid me" about my home city, but I love it here. Lots of used record stores.
Deepgrooves in the Netherlands has been doing this for several years. They were founded in 2017 specifically to be an entirely eco-friendly record manufacturer.