About

The Recycled Orchestra of Cateura (Spanish: Orquesta de Instrumentos Reciclados de Cateura), also known as the Recycled Orchestra, is an orchestra composed of children from Asunción, Paraguay[1] who play musical instruments made from scrap materials collected from Asunción’s Cateura landfill. Formed in 2012,[2] the orchestra has performed internationally with Stevie Wonder and the American heavy-metal bands Metallica and Megadeth.[3]