Recycled Orchestra “The world sends us garbage, we send back music” There’s an amazing video floating around YouTube that has brought a ray of sunshine to a very dark week for all of us. It’s the trailer for an upcoming documentary called Landfill Harmonic, which focuses on one remarkable group in Paraguay: an orchestra that plays…
In Bolivia and other Latin nations a group are helping people build their own homes our of plastic bottles. The Casas de Botellas, which translates to Bottle House, are giving people new hope and dignity. The bottles are filled with honey, sand, rubbish, linseed oil and milk. The bottles are added to dirt, livestock blood, cement, lime,…
New York Institute of Technology architecture students funded a plant to build a recycling center in Costa Rica, and fund a documentary film about it. Using KickStarter the students funded their projected. Costa Rica known for biodiversity, national parks, and a thriving eco-tourism sector, has a severe trash problem; lacking appropriate infrastructure and policies, over sixty…
Academy Awards nominated Waste Pickers is a wonderful documentary focusing on the plight of waste pickers from Brazil and an artist that changes their lives. The Brazilian artist Vik Muniz based in New York decides to make the difference and travels to the largest landfill of the world outside of Rio de Janeiro, with the intention to…
