I am trying to get to the Skinny on what the Heck this Day is All About and believe it was started by Gary Freiberg of Los Osos in 2005.
I have 100s of 78s, 33s, and 45s to SELL, so keep checking back to my Website and you may find a Treasured Memory!
Now this should Blow Your Mind!
At first, the records or discs were commonly made from SHELLAC, which was made from a resin secreted by the female Lac Bug that are found on trees in the forests of India and Thailand. This is processed and sold as dry flakes and dissolved in alcohol to make liquid shellac.
Then in starting in the 1940s POLYVINYL CHLORIDE became the more popular material used to produce records, hence the name "VINYL".
So to get away from the Marketing side of things here, and taking a look at how vinyl record production has had an impact on the Environment and not just World Wide Culture read up on what exactly the material is.
About half of the world's PVC production capacity is in CHINA. Many Chinese PVC Plants were shut down due to issues complying with environmental regulations and poor capacities of scale. The largest single producer of PVC as of 2018 is SHIN-ETSU Chemical of Japan, with a global share of around 30%. - According to Wikipedia