VINELAND, N.J. - Most people can agree rooting through the garbage doesn’t sound like a fun Friday activity, but sometimes people have their reasons.
In one case, something very important got thrown out."We were in the trash from our knees down, just scavenging," Jovani Quiles described.Knee-deep in a Vineland landfill on a volunteer mission – to find a local woman’s wedding ring, accidentally tossed on trash day."Honestly, after an hour, I was about to call it quits.
I turned to him, ‘We ain’t gonna find this,’" Jovani commented.Despite the odds, Atlantic County Utility Authority Supervisor Quiles, lead driver Ramon Nazario and two other workers did not give up.