Noooooooooooooo!

[Sherwood]

BBC News - Coldplay to make vinyl albums from plastic bottles
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw00dxe38n4o

[Barry]

PVC (polyvinyl chloride) is a thermosetting plastic.
That is, once melted, put in the record stamper and allowed to cool, it 'sets' and will not melt again on reheating

This means that any recycled PVC, regardless of the source, will have to be very finely chipped, for it to be of any use when mixed with virgin PVC.

The news may appeal to environmentalists, but as far as sound quality is concerned I have my doubts.

[Sherwood]

Don't go for the 180gm edition. Wait for the 5 litre Iron Bru limited edition!

[Pigmy Pony]

Good grief.

It would be better if Coldplay chose not to release the album at all, much more environmentally friendly. In fact I can't think of any environment that wouldn't benefit from Coldplay's absence.

I see the video for their forthcoming single was shot in Greece - I assume they cycled there. Or maybe unicycled, that would cut their carbon tyreprint by 50%.

[The Black Adder]

Just recycle Coldplay. Make them into something worth listening to [emoji106][emoji38]

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[guy]

PVC (polyvinyl chloride) is a thermosetting plastic.
That is, once melted, put in the record stamper and allowed to cool, it 'sets' and will not melt again on reheating

This means that any recycled PVC, regardless of the source, will have to be very finely chipped, for it to be of any use when mixed with virgin PVC.

The news may appeal to environmentalists, but as far as sound quality is concerned I have my doubts.

PVC is a thermoplastic - melts when heated.

[Barry]

If PVC is heated it will soften and melt, but it will loose plasticisers, so recycled PVC is not as flexible as 'virgin' PVC.
Hence adding recycled PVC to virgin PVC in the pressing of vinyl records will create an inhomogeneous plastic resulting in a record having areas of reduced flexibility.

[Lawrence001]

BBC News - Coldplay to make vinyl albums from plastic bottles
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw00dxe38n4o

Agree, nooooo Coldplay to make albums.

[prestonchipfryer]

Will not affect me re Coldplay as can't frigging stand them. 😀