While we've managed to pare down many of the collections of our youth, we're somehow unable to part with our vinyl, despite the space it takes up and the fact that our record player remains unused in a closet while we find the right spot for it. But perhaps there's a company to save us from ourselves — Vinylux recycles records into housewares and will even create custom pieces from your own albums.
Vinylux was founded by RISD grad Jeff Davis with the aim of creatively repurposing materials that would eventually be thrown away. Their creations include bowls, coasters, clocks, mirrors, frames and more. Any scrap material left over after making their products is sent to industrial recyclers, though most of the albums are used including the covers which are turned into notecards and sketchbooks.
See Vinylux's entire product line and find out where to buy on their website, www.vinylux.net.
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Comments (9)
I've been given this sort of thing as a present twice now......as "housewares", they look really tacky
My dad makes these at home. It's pretty easy and cheap to do.
Heresy!
So you give them your records and they ruin them completely. Or you buy their pre-ruined vinyl. Sounds like a grand idea! *cough!*
I agree, they are totally tacky. There is no way I would even regift them.
Oh! These make me cry! It's bad karma to treat music that way!
Yeah, unless I know for sure these records were totall scratched up so they weren't listen-able, then that is not cool. A lot of companies are "up-cycling" but I'm kind of dubious. There are items (oil, fossils, minerals) that are absolute and vintage vinyl and books are some of them too.
That's blasphememous to people who really love the black crack!
I literally (and that's not a word that I ever throw around casually) almost cried just looking at the photo. I hope at least all those albums were skuffed beyond play before they got turned into... ...coasters.
On a related note: in Seattle music stores (and hopefully at stores in other places, too) the decline in CD sales is being almost canceled out by the increase in vinyl transactions.
this is sad, stop killing music!