LandfillOrchestra

Landfill Worker in Paraguay Turns Trash into an Orchestra. As the world tries to come up with interesting ways to spread the word about saving our environment, a man in Paraguay has found an innovative way to promote “green” ideas and social awareness – while also encouraging music.

Favio Chávez was working at a huge landfill south of the capital, Asunción, several years ago when he made friends with the families who worked as recyclers and lived among the trash. He eventually figured out how to use the scraps of dirty oil cans, jars, wood, forks and other junk in the Cateura Landfill to make instruments for his very own orchestra, with the local kids as its members. “It’s awe inspiring that people could live in that degree of squalor and still have the spirit to make this orchestra. Landfill Harmonic teaser. Turning garbage into music [VID] Landfill Harmonic is a movie about “love, courage, and creativity.”

“MY LIFE WOULD BE WORTHLESS without music,” says one of the girls from the orchestra. I think this is true for many of us, more than we know it. Music is built into us; it’s inherent. That’s why you see those YouTube videos of babies laughing and dancing when dad turns the tunes on. Landfill Harmonic movie teaser. Landfill Harmonic film teaser. Juliana Penaranda-Loftus & Alejandra Nash. (7) Landfill Harmonic.