Would that put the CD on an equal footing to a download album? Well, no.
This is easily done by forsaking the stupid jewel case for cardboard, a move that could reduce the recording industry's packaging emissions by 95% in one fell swoop. Julie's Bicycle, the music industry initiative aiming to green British music, has introduced an eco benchmarking standard for CDs with a lower carbon footprint. Millions of CDs are still sold each year, and while the biodegradable idea has gone quiet, there are efforts to lighten the CD's carbon footprint. Then there's the scourge of the CD jewel case. They are made of polycarbonate, not as bad as PVC but still fused together with aluminium (therefore the recycling process is energy intensive) and a series of solvents. So conventional CDs should be seen as ecological progression. But then we should remember that back in the even older days, the air was full of polyvinyl chloride (PVC), or at least the dioxins (also known as one of the "most toxic man-made chemical ever known") produced by the creation of PVC, and known fondly by musos as "vinyl".
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