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Orquesta Basura - Música por Reutiliza

2023-1-ES02-KA152-YOU-0001409592023Mobility of young peopleongoing
Countries: ES|HU|PT|LT|FR|TR · Grant: €31,548
Green skillsEnvironment and climate changeCreativity, arts and culture

Objectives

Climate change is one of the most urgent issues for many young people, who recognise the importance of recycling and other green initiatives. In this project, young people will utilize their creative talents as they develop a deeper understanding of environmental issues. They learn about current factors that affect the earth’s longevity, strategies they can implement at the micro-level to promote positive change, and new products they can design using recyclable materials. Trash Orchestra comes from its name that the instruments are developed from the daily trashes. In 2020, Household waste weighing more than a camel or mini caravan? That was the average amount each person in the EU generated in 2020, according to Eurostat. At 505kg per person, people produced 4kg more municipal waste than in 2019 and 38kg more than in 1995. The average adult camel or mini caravan, meanwhile, is about 500kg. Eurostat defines municipal waste as anything collected by local authorities. This means it mainly comes from households, but also includes rubbish from shops, offices and public institutions. The EU generated 225.7 million tonnes of it in 2020, an increase of 1% from 2019 and a 14% jump compared with 1995, the Eurostat figures show. Thus, increasing awareness about the waste management is highly important to prevent the ecological harms of waste. In addition to that, we create new places which results with dangers to the marine life as Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Great Pacific Garbage Patch is three times the size of France and is the world's biggest ocean waste repository, with 1.8 billion pieces of floating plastic which kill thousands of marine animals each year. Thus, re-using plastic materials will create a huge impact on marine life and environment positively. Therefore, increasing awareness about recycling plastic is highly important. The project idea comes from the initiative called “Orquesta de Instrumentos Reciclados de Cateura” in Paraguay and “Orquesta Basura” in Mexico who use the scrap materials from the landfill and urban waste to make instruments with children and young people and creates music pieces. Our main aim is to create this experience in European level while creating an awareness on the local community and European level about the environmental awareness and waste management. Thus, the project will contribute to the awareness raising on these issues as well as the recycling and reusing the products which are considered as waste and create an awareness on this aspect as well. By implementing this project, we aim to increase the awareness of young people as well as the local community through using the universal tool as music. The idea that the participants will co-develop and co-produce new music instruments through the collected garbage from the households in our town and one of the most frequent hiking path in our town. After the collected garbage they will produce musical instruments with the help of our facilitators and they will implement a concert by using these musical instruments. In that sense, the project will create both local awareness on the recycling and disposal of waste and the participants. With the project we will cover three different themes : climate, environmental awareness and music culture. While covering this themes, we will use the music as a tool and promote and foster the creativity of young people who are interested and talented on music to promote the ideas with an universal tool such as music. As the European Green Deal promotes the "longer lasting products that can be repaired, recycled and re-used", we will create an awareness on this aspect as well through the project activities. The specific objectives of the project: - To increase the capacities of young people with music to promote reuse and environmental awareness - To make the young people develop green skills for using the waste for reuse, repair and recycle - To create an awareness on the issues of waste in European communities through both face to face activities and the music concert - To qualify young people as handcrafter through making them develop their own instruments - To create a local impact in Alcala la Real and making the local community aware about the issues of waste disposal through their dialogue with the young participants as well as making them engage to music development process - To increase the competences of young people and youth organisations for developing their abilities to implement recycling workshops and make them aware about the issues concerning envorienment

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