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Sony Closing 18M CD/Month Plant
coondoggie writes "Sony this week said it was shuttering one of its largest CD manufacturing plants — citing the impact of digital downloads and other economic issues. The plant, which has been in operation for some 50 years, first producing vinyl records, will close on March 31 and about 300 people will lose their jobs. The 500,000-square-foot warehouse began producing vinyl LPs in 1960 and moved to CD manufacturing in 1988. At its capacity, the plant was making 18 million CDs per month, according to its website."
That's a stunning amount of plastic waste and manufacturing process waste no longer being generated.
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I too prefer to order CDs and rip my own MP3
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"Sony Closing Plant 18M/CD/Month Plant"
Aside from two Plants...
18 Million Per Cd Per Month?
a CD manufacturing plant in a country with an actual working EPA is far, far better for the environment than the toxic waste dump that we are creating in China right now,where environmental activists get thrown in prison as 'enemies of the state'. . Thats what we do to make all of these iphones, ipads, iwhatever, which seem to get thrown out every 2 years for the 'new generation'. Close your eyes, stick your head in the sand, pretend that magic fairys give you printed circuit boards. also, where do you think the energy comes from to power the servers for downloads? it ain't some wind farm. i don't see any "renewable offset purchasing" logo on the apple istore. that 'clean tech' is powered by dirty, dirty coal dug out from the innards of a mountain and burned in a giant plant that pours smoke into the air
That's why I rip my CDs and store them in other people's houses. Amazon has a great system for this - you put your CD up and someone gives you $1.99 and you ship it to them and they store it for you.
Then someday, maybe years down the road, if you ever need that CD back (though it hasn't happened yet) you can just send someone on amazon $1.99 and they'll send you your CD back (or one just like it).
That's a fair storage fee for several years of maintaining your hard copy backup.
To double the safety of this backup system, you can also make a bit-perfect backup copy on a 15 cent blank CD. That way you have on-site and off-site backup, and you never pay for the storage fee unless you need it back - more like a recovery fee.
I store my hardcopies in the cloud! :P
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Hey Slashdot, why do you let these schills come here to make money from you?
Submitted by... Coondoggie. The blog this links to is run by Michael Cooney. Hmmmm.
Well Mr. Cooney, just as the comments on your ad-revenue blog say, you have failed to mention the location of the plant. Then instead of providing us with the link to your "source", you link us to your site to generate hits.
You sir, are a hack.
Here's the actual news story:
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/business/homepage/20110112_Sony_will_close_South_Jersey_CD_plant.html