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Billie Eilish and Coldplay Want to Make Vinyl Greener, But What Does That Even Mean?

Billie Eilish and Coldplay have both embraced sustainable practices and materials to manufacture physical versions of their latest albums.

In 2023, people bought more vinyl LPs than CDs for the first time in 35 years, and even the bins of your local independent record store are likely stuffed with new releases from the world’s biggest pop stars. “I can’t even express to you how wasteful it is,” Billie Eilish told Billboard earlier this year of the vinyl boom, and the way many artists are pressing multiple versions of an album to juice sales and chart position. But as Eilish seemed to suggest in her Billboard interview, effectively addressing climate change doesn’t come down to individual artists (or even consumers) advocating for and making greener choices — it’s about convincing the major corporations that dominate the music industry to adopt these practices, too.

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