Recycling Vinyl Records Into Art

To make a great craft with just a single vinyl record look no further than a vinyl record bowl.

Recycling vinyl records into art. While compact discs might make convenient coasters and cassette tapes might not be much good for anything at all vinyl records are actually an amazing medium from which to create everything. Use the map to find a recycling company near you. Nevertheless vinyl does have its own groovy charms and a great way of keeping vinyl with us is to recycle it but don t tell the vinyl obsessives. Bonus points if you can find a vinyl record in an unusual color.

Not because of the fact that there are no interesting diy things you can do with vinyl records you don t need anymore but because it s difficult to make them into the shape you want. If you have rare discs you may be able to sell them via online websites such as cash4records or vinyl exchange. Use the map to find a recycling company near you. Records can be reused as is or crafted into new products.

Let the record cool off hang wherever you like and enjoy. The process of melting vinyl records is different depending on what you re planning to make. Vinyl records are rising in popularity again and if in good condition can be donated to some charity shops. It is worth noting that records manufactured before the 1950s were made out of shellac not vinyl.

Upcycle the stand from an old side table and replace the top with a vinyl record album. The vinyl institute recycling directory offers a list of vinyl plastic recyclers in north america. Vinyl records make for a purse with nice and sturdy sides. To make your own record bowl you will need a vinyl record two oven mitts a cookie sheet and an oven safe bowl approximately 9 inches 22 86 cm across the top.

My good friend charles requested i look up ideas for his broken scratched vinyl records. This is one of the things that make vinyl records so great because you can find a lot of new uses for them just with a few simple bends. The hotter the vinyl the more you can mold it to be deep shallow and so forth. The vinyl institute recycling directory offers a list of vinyl plastic recyclers in north america.

This is the best way to cover a wall in records for display. The harmful chemicals that make vinyl records so difficult to recycle can be released into the ground and air over time so it is important to keep records out of the waste stream. For a lot of the projects you find on this post and on pinterest it will require melting and bending of some sort. If you are making a bowl out of your record.

If your records are not suitable for re use or re sale they will need to be disposed of in the rubbish bin.