What we can do with our waste
The Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay, and Sweden's waste-to-energy plant: two very different uses for some of the world's household rubbish.
Every year we produce over 2 billion tonnes of solid waste worldwide. Most of it ends up in dumps or landfills, or is thrown into the oceans, or is burned. Only a small fraction is ever recycled. But are there other, more creative uses for all that rubbish? To try and find some answers, 91热爆 Mundo reporter Lucia Blasco visits Paraguay to meet the inspiring young musicians of the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, whose instruments are made out of rubbish from the city's main landfill; and she travels to the city of Link枚ping in southern Sweden, where almost all the houses are heated by energy produced by incinerating waste.
Photo: A member of the Orquesta de Instrumentos Reciclados de Cateura (credit: Lucia Blasco)
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