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Second Verse Kids Turn Trash into Musical Instruments
Young musicians from the village of Cateura, Paraguay, a town of 2,500 families that make a living by mining the 1,500 tons of solid waste daily dumped in a local landfi ll, have started making musical instruments from the debris. Favio Chávez, an ecological technician
and trained musician, was inspired to teach the local children to play music in an orchestra. He says, “The world sends us garbage, we
send back music.” A documentary, Landfi ll Harmonic, is in production and a 30-member Recycled Orchestra has performed in Argentina, Brazil and Germany. The message is that like other natural resources, children living in poverty have redeeming value and should not be deemed worthless.
Watch videos at
Tinyurl.com/ChavezOrchestra and
Facebook.com/landfi llharmonicmovie.
Table Label Chipotle’s Identifi es GMO Ingredients
Although the U.S. Food and Drug Administration does not require the labeling of genetically-modifi ed organisms (GM or GMO) used as ingredients in any food, the Chipotle Mexican Grill national fast food restaurant chain has chosen to do so, on the way to eliminating them from its menu altogether. They have already switched fryers from using soybean oil, almost always made from genetically-modifi ed sources, to sunfl ower oil, which is not. With 1,400 locations, Chipotle reports that its labeling system refl ects that it does use GMO soybean oil in some of its products and that most of the grain used to feed its animals for meat and dairy is GMO corn. The chain’s success in this effort may also prompt other fast food outlets to follow suit.
Bamboozled Bamboo Fabric a Product of Greenwashing
At least one dealer in sustainable products has taken a stand against bamboo fabric, which most people associate with bamboo lumber, a rapidly renewable resource that
requires fewer pesticides to grow than other crops. Laura Mathews, of Eco Promotional Products, Inc., in Washington state, cites the Federal Trade Commission’s report: “The truth is, most bamboo textile products, if not all, really are rayon, which typically is made using environmentally toxic chemicals. While different plants, including bamboo, can be used as a source material to create rayon, there’s no trace of the original plant in the fi nished rayon product.” Mathews says that her company has discontinued selling bamboo clothing and all other items made from bamboo fabric. She notes, “It’s the responsibility of everyone to vet these and other similar terms to ensure that the eco- friendly product you’re putting your purchasing power behind is actually eco-friendly.”
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photo courtesy of Landfi ll Harmonic
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