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Re:50% of U.S. vinyl buyers don't own a record player by itake on Friday January 02, 2026 @02:53AM (#46462464)
At some point in the future, the owner will pass and their children will have a mass of plastic to manage.

Perhaps their children will cherish it for generations, or perhaps their children will have different musical tastes from their great great great grandpa and the plastic ends up in a landfill, forever un-played.

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Re:50% of U.S. vinyl buyers don't own a record player by leogao on Friday January 02, 2026 @03:14AM (#46462580)
in the grand scheme of things, this is a very small amount of plastic waste, and as far as resources go, one of the less scarce ones. at some point, the cost of the hand wringing to avoid waste is more of a drag on society than the actual wasted material itself.
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Re:50% of U.S. vinyl buyers don't own a record player by onion2k on Friday January 02, 2026 @07:58AM (#46464312)
At that point it becomes waste. That doesn't mean it's waste now.
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