An orchestra made from trash

The expression "one man's trash is another man's treasure" finds new meaning in the documentary "Landfill Harmonic"

The film - which is still in production - centers around the town of Cateura, Paraguay, which is dominated by the presence of an enormous landfill.

When a new music program started up at the local school, the teachers soon had fifty students and only five violins. That's when they met Cola, a man who makes his living rummaging through the landfill, finding new uses for discarded things. Using aluminum cans and forks, he built them a violin.

Now they have an entire "recycled orchestra" making beautiful music together.

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