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El Sobrante Landfill is a Class 3 regional disposal facility permitted to accept up to 10,000 tons per day, seven days per week. It employs approximately 40 full-time employees. Landfill operations are overseen by the California Integrated Waste Management Board, and the Riverside County Department of Environmental Health.
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It was trash day and Alfred Nila, trying to help new wife, Dora, take the trash out, 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 in 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 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 her job after 15 years in the construction industry and in June, during their honeymoon, the couple lost their camera along with some cash.
Dora contacted Waste Management staff hoping that by retrieving the bag, the couple would break their string of bad luck. However, she knew that her fate depended on Waste Management staff helping her 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 tracking 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.
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.
She can’t thank Waste Management staff enough for going above and beyond to assist her in her personal plight to end her bad luck.
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