diff --git a/examples/envs/gym-async-info-reader.py b/examples/envs/gym-async-info-reader.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..39f93131bdb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/envs/gym-async-info-reader.py
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+# Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
+#
+# This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+# LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+
+"""
+A toy example of executing a Gym environment asynchronously and gathering the info properly.
+"""
+import argparse
+
+import gymnasium as gym
+import numpy as np
+from gymnasium import spaces
+
+parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+parser.add_argument("--use_wrapper", action="store_true")
+
+# Create the dummy environment
+class CustomEnv(gym.Env):
+    def __init__(self, render_mode=None):
+        self.observation_space = spaces.Box(low=-np.inf, high=np.inf, shape=(3,))
+        self.action_space = spaces.Box(low=-np.inf, high=np.inf, shape=(1,))
+
+    def _get_info(self):
+        return {"field1": self.state**2}
+
+    def _get_obs(self):
+        return self.state.copy()
+
+    def reset(self, seed=None, options=None):
+        # We need the following line to seed self.np_random
+        super().reset(seed=seed)
+        self.state = np.zeros(self.observation_space.shape)
+        observation = self._get_obs()
+        info = self._get_info()
+        return observation, info
+
+    def step(self, action):
+        self.state += action.item()
+        truncated = False
+        terminated = False
+        reward = 1 if terminated else 0  # Binary sparse rewards
+        observation = self._get_obs()
+        info = self._get_info()
+        return observation, reward, terminated, truncated, info
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    import torch
+    from torchrl.data.tensor_specs import UnboundedContinuousTensorSpec
+    from torchrl.envs import check_env_specs, GymEnv, GymWrapper
+
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    num_envs = 10
+
+    if args.use_wrapper:
+        # Option 1: using GymWrapper
+        env = gym.vector.AsyncVectorEnv([lambda: CustomEnv() for _ in range(num_envs)])
+        env = GymWrapper(env, device="cpu")
+    else:
+        # Option 2: using GymEnv directly, no need to call AsyncVectorEnv
+        gym.register("Custom-v0", CustomEnv)
+        env = GymEnv("Custom-v0", num_envs=num_envs)
+
+    keys = ["field1"]
+    specs = [
+        UnboundedContinuousTensorSpec(shape=(num_envs, 3), dtype=torch.float64),
+    ]
+
+    # Create an info reader: this object will read the info and write its content to the tensordict
+    def reader(info, tensordict):
+        return tensordict.set("field1", np.stack(info["field1"]))
+    env.set_info_dict_reader(info_dict_reader=reader)
+
+    # Print the info readers (there should be 2: one to read the terminal states and another to read the 'field1')
+    print("readers", env.info_dict_reader)
+
+    # We need to unlock the specs to make them writable
+    env.observation_spec.unlock_()
+    env.observation_spec["field1"] = specs[0]
+    env.observation_spec.lock_()
+
+    # Check that we did a good job
+    check_env_specs(env)
+
+    td = env.reset()
+    print("reset data", td)
+    print("content of field1 (should be a 10x3 tensor)", td["field1"])
diff --git a/torchrl/envs/gym_like.py b/torchrl/envs/gym_like.py
index 9cbec79211d..6fe778a9a2c 100644
--- a/torchrl/envs/gym_like.py
+++ b/torchrl/envs/gym_like.py
@@ -162,8 +162,9 @@ class GymLikeEnv(_EnvWrapper):
 
     @classmethod
     def __new__(cls, *args, **kwargs):
-        cls._info_dict_reader = []
-        return super().__new__(cls, *args, _batch_locked=True, **kwargs)
+        self = super().__new__(cls, *args, _batch_locked=True, **kwargs)
+        self._info_dict_reader = []
+        return self
 
     def read_action(self, action):
         """Reads the action obtained from the input TensorDict and transforms it in the format expected by the contained environment.