Is there an environmental cost to vinyl revival?

Every year 160 million vinyl records are being pressed, and the demand is getting higher. Production processes of those vinyls are largely stuck in the late 70s, and are decidedly anti-green. It involves toxic acids, huge amounts of energy including steaming and cooling, and the records themselves are typically PVC, a plastic thought to be carcinogenic, which is due to be banned by the EU. There is a solution - Dutch company Symcon makes Green Vinyl, that kind of record is non-PVC, doesn't involve chlorine and steam, the energy output is 60% lower, production costs 25% less, labour costs lower. But, vinyl-lovers seem to dislike them - there is no static when taken out of sleeve, no pop and crackle to be heard when it plays, and it also doesn’t smell like conventional vinyl, Guardian reports.