Will Haude places a record into a laser cutter at Wrecords By Monkey in Brooklyn. Patrick Chirico, owner of the business, transforms old vinyl records into jewelry, clocks, wall art and other novelties.

NEW YORK — These vinyl records give “remaster” a new meaning.

An entrepreneur transforms the lacquered discs into jewelry, clocks, wall art and other novelties, with the perk of keeping a little more trash out of the environment along the way.

Patrick Chirico, owner of Wrecords by Monkey in Brooklyn, gets his raw materials from the surplus of used-record stores, which canvas flea markets and estate sales, sell the most popular vinyl, and discard the rest.

Chirico pays about 10 cents a disc, and uses mostly 33-rpm LPs for his projects, separating them into thick and thin vinyl.

“The thick vinyl we use for clocks and wall art and things like that don’t need to be manipulated,” he says. “And for the thinner vinyl we use for laser cutting and bracelet making.”

The polyvinyl chloride used to create records doesn’t biodegrade, said Eric Goldstein, an attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council.

“It can stay in a landfill for hundreds if not a thousand years,” Goldstein says.

To reduce his carbon footprint, Chirico says he uses 90 percent of every record. He makes the album cover into smart phone speaker stands, and paper sleeves are used for shipping and packaging.

He sells in both a store and online. He calls his customers nostalgic for rock ’n’ roll or hip-hop and says they range in age from 20 to 70. Bracelets range from $10 to $25, clocks $39 to $100 and wall art $19 to $100; iPhone amplifiers are $5.

Chirico isn’t the only one recycling vinyl. Brooklynphono, which opened in 2003, recycles, or “regrinds,” discarded vinyl to create new albums in addition to using new vinyl. It put out about 440,000 LPs last year.

Owner Thomas Bernich says he and his wife started out with two old machines to press vinyl and now have five.