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Press Release
Waste Management Employees Help Corona
Newlyweds End String of Bad Luck
Carona, CA, July 23, 2008 - Last Friday, Waste Management employees in the Inland Empire helped “unlucky” Corona newlyweds rescue the husband’s best dress shirts from El Sobrante Landfill.
Alfred Nila was trying to help his new wife, Dora, take the household trash out during trash day and mistook a bag sitting in the front room of the house as trash and placed in the trash bin. Dora had placed the bag with her husband’s best dress shirts near the front door to remind herself that it needed to be dropped off at the drycleaners. The newlyweds realized the mistake soon after the waste truck had come to haul their trash away.
For Dora, it wasn’t the value of the shirts that concerned her, but rather that the snafu represented a string of bad luck that had been shadowing the newlyweds for the last couple of months. In May, Dora got laid off after 15 years in the construction industry and in June, during their honeymoon, the couple lost their camera along with some cash.”
“I felt I had to do everything I could to find the bag and break this string of bad luck we’ve had, ” said Dora. “I knew that changing our luck depended on Waste Management staff helping me go through the trash at the landfill and find that bag!”
Her luck changed as soon as she contacted Waste Management customer representative, Kathrine Martinez, whose willingness to help and quick thinking resulted in being able to track down the trash truck driver before he reached the landfill. Kathrine even arranged for Dora to meet the driver and landfill supervisor at the entrance of El Sobrante Landfill.
“We pride ourselves on providing great customer service and being a partner with the community. This is an outstanding – and unusual example – of how our employees go above and beyond everyday, “ said Lily Quiroa, spokesperson for Waste Management in the Inland Empire.
El Sobrante Landfill Supervisor, Nick Godfrey skillfully isolated the specific load of trash containing the bag of shirts from the rest of the trash in the landfill. WM landfill employees and managers spent 40 minutes searching for a white plastic bag amongst a sea of plastic bags. It seemed like an impossible mission, but Dora struck luck and the bag was found with all articles of clothing accounted for.
“I was so impressed with the help I received from Waste Management employees, they went above and beyond what I expected from a big company. They didn’t even know what the loss of the bag represented to me and they did everything they could to help me find it,” added Dora.
Waste Management’s El Sobrante Landfill is located in the unincorporated area of Riverside County. The landfill serves more than one million Inland Empire residents and is a critical component of Riverside County and the greater Los Angeles region’s infrastructure. The site has more than XXX acres in permanent preservation and is a critical component of preserving open space in Riverside County. For more information on the landfill, please go to www.keepinginlandempireclean.com.
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