Sustainability

Sustainability

At Holiday Records we acknowledge that pressing vinyl records has an impact on our natural environment due, in part, to its essential use of PVC plastic in its manufacturing process.
Luckily, our deep understanding of the vinyl industry’s shortcomings enables us to challenge the system we work in and how we can lead by example to make worthwhile improvements in our processes.


What does this mean? For us, this means developing our own path in conscious manufacturing, supporting local production, offering transparency and applying minimal waste procedures in everything we do so we can ultimately produce your vinyl records as sustainably as possible.

By focusing on manufacturing a quality product we can also encourage a sustainable and long life for each record pressed - from one generation to the next. For those records that have come to their natural end we provide New Zealand's first and only recycling service to facilitate a circular manufacturing environment.

Our goal is to lead the charge in producing vinyl records as sustainably as possible. So while we have laid a solid foundation, we will continue to improve our materials and process innovation in pursuit of this.

The Warmtone™

Meet Viryl Technologies WarmTone™ Record Press: the most innovative record press to reach the market in record pressing history which is specifically designed to promote uptime and sustain future vinyl growth.
The groundbreaking design of the WarmTone™ Record Press allows a significant reduction in wasted PVC due to its ability to press high quality records consistently.

The WarmTone™ Record Press operates with reduced energy consumption due to quicker record pressing cycles compared to their older counterparts — down to 35% reduction in energy and 30 seconds per record pressed.

Holiday Records also uses a closed loop water cooling system that means 100% recycling of water during the cooling cycle of pressing records.

What we do

  • Low Carbon Vinyl

    Low Carbon Vinyl (A.K.A. BioVinyl) has been developed using bio-attributed resins and stabilisers to reduce the carbon footprint of the vinyl compound by over 92% when compared to standard vinyl compound (this does not include emissions related to transport). The innovative formula is made with these sustainable raw materials and a manufacturing process that is optimised to minimise energy consumption and waste generation.
    We believe Low Carbon Vinyl is the new sustainable dawn in record pressing.

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  • Cleaner PVC Compound

    Our standard PVC compounds that we use to press records is free from the standard heavy metal stabilisers (i.e. lead or cadmium) used by other pressing plants which are highly toxic. This means a safer product for us and the environment.

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  • Sustainable Printing

    All of our printed packaging (jackets, inserts, booklets, download cards) are printed using eco-friendly inks and FSC certified paper stock - sourced only from responsibly managed, socially beneficial, environmentally conscious forests. Our printer's also use presses which are developed to be equipment-CO² neutral.

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  • Unused PVC Recycled

    We have partnered with Marley New Zealand in Auckland to supply them with close to 100% of our unused PVC - offcuts, purged compound and all of our recyclable dud records - which they use to melt down and recycle into the production of some of their PVC piping products. One more way to make our processes as waste-free as possible.

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  • Local wherever possible

    To reduce our carbon footprint caused by transportation we have utilised local suppliers wherever possible. When moving records around the world we use local freight forwarder Mainfreight New Zealand who are constantly striving to make their operations as sustainable as possible and always going above and beyond national and international requirements.

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  • Sustainable Packaging

    Our cardboard boxes used for packing records are made from 51% recycled card and the other 50% with FSC sustainable certified sources from Visy. To seal records we offer 100% recyclable shrink wrap, reusable (and recyclable) outer-sleeves or a simple paper sticker to avoid plastic altogether.

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Record Recycling Program

Vinyl records in their finished state are unrecyclable because of their paper centre labels - but Holiday Records is here to change that. Bring in your unloved vinyl records and we will recycle them into PVC piping with our friends at Marley New Zealand.

Some fees may apply.

How it works

  • 1. Bring in your old records

    If you have any dud 12" vinyl records at home that are destined for the landfill feel free to bring them into Holiday Records so we can facilitate their safe recycling.
    Please contact us first to arrange a time to make a delivery.

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  • 2. Removal of centre labels

    Used PVC is reusable — just not with paper embossed into its surface like that of all vinyl records.

    We have designed and built a custom machine whose only purpose is to forcefully punch out the centre labels.

    This means the PVC can be recycled by our friends down the road at Marley New Zealand.

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  • 3. Grinding of records

    We then grind up the records with centre labels removed in order to create a consistent PVC granulate that Marley New Zealand can then recycle.

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  • 4. Making of PVC Piping

    We then deliver your ground up PVC to our friends at Marley New Zealand who melt this down to use in their manufacturing process for some of their PVC piping products

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