Favio Hernán Chávez Morán (born December 5, 1975), is an Argentinian musician, environmental technician, and director of the

Recycled Orchestra of Cateura The Recycled Orchestra of Cateura (), also known as the Recycled Orchestra, is an orchestra composed of children from Asunción, Paraguay who play musical instruments made from scrap materials collected from Asunción's Cateura landfill. Formed ...

, since 2012. He has served as director of the music school of

Carapeguá Carapeguá (, '' Guaraní: Karapegua'') is a city and ''district'' of the Paraguarí Department, Paraguay, located 84 km from Asunción. It was founded in 1725. Settled by the Caañabé river and over the Route 1 "Mariscal Francisco Solano ...

and departmental coordinator of the program
Sounds of the Earth
, from 2002 to 2011; as well as Academic Coordinator of the project created by the Paraguayan teacher

Luis Szarán Luis Szarán (born 24 September 1953) is a Paraguayan musician, orchestra director, composer and musical researcher; since 2002, founder and director of the social and community integration program "'Sounds of the Earth''", which created the sc ...

, from 2008 to October 2011. He worked as an environmental educator of the program " Procicla", of NGOs "

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" and " Geam", in the

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landfill of

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, since February 2006 and resigned in March 2007. He was later named "Sounds of the Earth" as supervisor of the workshop of lutería in Cateura, that opened in May 2007, in charge of the luthier Carlos Uliambre. He integrated the first set of recycled instruments, created by idea of

, along with five other young people from Carapeguá; which was first presented at

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in March 2008. At the suggestion of Szarán, the group "Los Reciclados" of Carapeguá was also created, which Chavez directed until he was dismissed from "Sounds of the Earth" in October 2011. In July 2012, Chavez announced that the music school "Sounds of Cateura" was independent of the program "Sounds of the Earth", and the community project happened to be called the

. In November 2012, the production of "

Landfill Harmonic ''Landfill Harmonic'' (stylized as ''landillharmonic'') is a 2015 documentary film directed by Brad Allgood and Graham Townsley. It stars and tells the story of Paraguayan music teacher Favio Chavez and his Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, a childre ...

" launched a new promotional teaser, omitting any mention of "Sounds of the Earth" and Luis Szarán. In May 2016, an original member of the orchestra and two members of the parents' association, who helped build the current building of the Cateura music school; filed a complaint with the Office of the Prosecutor against the director's administration, for alleged lack of transparency. The complaint is backed by three senators from Paraguay.

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