Waste Management - GI Industries - Keeping Our Communities Clean

Clean diesel technology will eliminate air pollution from 90 percent - or about 13 million – of today's trucks and buses.

The Simi Landfill & Recycling Center powers 2,500 homes each day with two landfill gas-to-energy generators using methane gas.

Clean diesel engines and fuels will prevent nearly 8,300 premature deaths, along with tens of thousands of cases of bronchitis, asthma and other respiratory ailments.

Throughout the U.S., particulate matter will be reduced by 250,000 tons, and NOx by 4 million tons every year.

In California alone, particulate matter will be reduced by 110,000 tons, and NOx by 2.6 million tons every year.

In the Community

This past summer, Waste Management honored our commitment to our local communities by helping out a couple of very worthy Simi Valley residents who found themselves faced with some difficult burdens. Eighty-year-old Chris Palomaraz, a lifetime area resident lost his uninsured house to a fire started by illegal fireworks. Deputy Sheriff David Bonebright and his family have struggled to take care of their medically fragile infant and needed some community support. Waste Management joined with other community groups and community members, to pitch in to help.

On the Fourth of July, Chris Palomarez who is 80 years old returned from visiting his wife's grave to find the Simi Valley house he's lived in half his life on fire. County fire investigators suspect that illegal bottle rockets fired from a schoolyard across the street likely landed on the house's cedar shake roof, setting it afire.

Mr. Palomarez was born in Fillmore and lived in Moorpark until he met his wife, Evelyn, and moved to Simi Valley in the mid 1950s. Since Mr. Palomarez did not have insurance, several fundraisers have been held to help the Palomarez family recover. Waste Management provided free disposal service as the community has helped the clean up of the property. If you would like to help, please contact Gina Gooding at mgooding8@yahoo.com.

In addition to helping the Palomarez family, Waste Management was proud to assist over 50 volunteers from the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department, neighboring law enforcement agencies, members of the business community, and families when they recently participated in a yard makeover at the home of Deputy David Bonebright.

The Bonebrights have been very busy taking care of their 16-month-old daughter Ashlyn, who was born three months premature in March of 2005. Ashlyn’s condition continues to improve, but she remains dependant on a ventilator and supplemental oxygen to help her breathe. She has fought several lung infections in the past year, and still struggles to breathe. She is blind and depends on in-home nursing care 16 hours per day.

The volunteers cut down trees and shrubs; mowed and trimmed the yard to lift the spirits of the Bonebrights and help them with some much needed yard maintenance. Thanks to the generosity of many businesses and a small army of motivated volunteers, smiles were put on the faces of David and his family.

While Ashlyn’s future is uncertain, one thing is certain: her long-term care puts a huge financial burden on David and Christine Bonebright. This is one event of many to assist the Bonebright family in any way possible. Anyone who wishes to contribute financially to help Ashlyn with her long road to recovery should contact Deputy Eric Buschow at Eric.Buschow@ventura.org.

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