{"id":461822,"date":"2026-05-22T14:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/461822\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T14:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:02:12","slug":"wmg-backed-pilot-shows-unsold-vinyl-records-can-be-recycled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/461822\/","title":{"rendered":"WMG-backed pilot shows unsold vinyl records can be recycled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recycled vinyl has been A Thing for a while now\u2026 but is it really A Thing that sounds as good as non-recycled vinyl? A pilot scheme from Warner Music Group and GZ Media aims to prove that it does.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pilot involved taking 10,000 unsold records, shredding them, and then pressing new records made up of anywhere between 10% and 100% of the recycled material \u2013 then working with Abbey Road Studios to blind-test the audio quality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And?\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gzmedia.com\/gzwmg\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">You can read the full report on the results here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The gist: \u201cThe pilot successfully produced pressings suitable for commercial release, with evaluators noting only minor differences in audio performance across all variants tested, indicating comparable listening quality,\u201d explains the report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOverall, the listening panel did not identify evidence suggesting that recycled mixed-origin feedstock inherently compromises perceived audio quality under the conditions of this pilot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nRelated Stories\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recycled vinyl has been A Thing for a while now\u2026 but is it really A Thing that sounds&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[44720,61,60,80,98178,84607],"class_list":["post-461822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-climate-emergency","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology","tag-vinyl","tag-warner-music-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}