Dive summary:

• In a neighborhood where a violin costs more than a house, one landfill worker has started building instruments from what is found in the landfill that the neighborhood is built on.
• Favio Chávez is leading the project not only building instruments but also teaching and conducting the now 30 member strong orchestra.
• The orchestra has played all around the world and a documentary entitled Landfill Harmonics is currently being made about the group by an American filmmaker.

From the article:

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. ....