What to do with old inner sleevs after cleaning?

all sleeves become somewhat dusty, but quality sleeves should protect records just fine. if they are visually inferior, change them. if not, i wouldn't worry to much about changing each time you clean a record. the mpfi sleeves are excellent, and last longer than most.

Careful: Contrarian replying here. I re-use most of my poly-lined sleeves that are in good condition, I replace all paper only sleeves or sleeves in bad condition or sleeves that are only the really soft plastic (from the 50s). I keep my EMI, Decca, Lyrita and many other LPs that came with good quality sleeves in those original sleeves.

I know this does not follow the collective conventional wisdom on this topic. But I clean every LP I purchase, I've never found that re-using the sleeves adversely impacts the thousands of LPs that I've cleaned and that are on my shelves. I know the concerns over leaching plasticizers, etc., etc., from the old poly, and I've heard the war stories. But I've never encountered it in any of my LPs in over 30 years of collecting vinyl, included lots of used LPs that have been sitting in some of those sleeves for 40 years or more. (Comment: if you wet clean your LPs, make sure they are *completely* dry before putting them back into any sleeve. Newly cleaned but still damp LPs going into a plastic lined jacket has been the most frequent cause of problems I've seen friends encounter.)

If I replace a sleeve (and I replace quite a few), I trhow away generic sleeves. If the sleeve has any graphics or text related to the album, I keep it with the record in the jacket.
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Jaybo, I didn't see your post before I hit the key on mine. Sounds like we are of somewhat similar mind on this topic.

Cheers,

Recycle them