Music and sustainability collective Evolution Music has designed a 12-inch vinyl made of bioplastic using existing record pressing machinery, which features tracks by artists Beatie Wolfe and Michael Stipe.
Hailed as the world's first commercially available bioplastic 12-inch vinyl by Evolution Music, the product is made from specially designed bioplastic instead of traditional, carbon-intensive PVC.
The 12-inch vinyl is made from bioplastic created by Evolution Music
The bioplastic 12-inch vinyl looks and functions like a standard vinyl, comprised of a black disc illustrated with a central graphic design.
It was manufactured using existing record pressing machinery and production processes.
It is manufactured using existing record pressing machinery Its A-side features the track Future, If Future by American musician Stipe, while Oh My Heart by British-American artist Wolfe can be played on its B-side.
The bioplastic 12-inch vinyl's creators said that they were prompted to design the material and the product themselves after struggling to find "sustainable solutions for physical media".
"It is a robust, ecologically secure compostable material created specifically to act and sound the same as PVC-derived vinyl," Evolution Music CEO Marc Carey told Dezeen.
Tracks by Michael Stipe and Beatie Wolfe feature on the record
To create the bioplastic, a four-year development process involved identifying a base polymer that acts in the same way as traditional P...