Waste Management of New Jersey Executive Receives Environmental Quality Award

Waste Management executive John Wohlrab was honored with an Environmental Quality Award at the annual Clean Communities Awards Dinner, hosted by the Trustees of the New Jersey Clean Communities Council on May 23 in Maritime Parc, Liberty State Park.

The award was presented to Wohlrab for arranging assistance for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) in its efforts to remove litter and debris from the streets and beaches in the Barnegat Bay Watershed in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.  Waste Management of New Jersey took the lead by providing dumpsters and volunteer labor weekend after weekend in the months following the storm.

As Director of Government Relations with Waste Management of New Jersey, Wohlrab has led the company’s efforts over the past two years to support of cleanups of the Barnegat Bay Watershed with donations of dumpsters and has provided resources for urban cleanups in Newark and Elizabeth for eight consecutive years.

In 2008, Wohlrab stepped forward for Waste Management at the annual Clean Communities Awards Dinner in Princeton to accept the Clean Communities Council’s 2008 Business Partnership Award. Waste Management was a major sponsor of the event that year, providing lunches for 1,000 children in Jadwin Gymnasium on the Princeton University campus..

“We are proud to partner with Waste Management in advancing the goals of the Clean Communities Council for a cleaner New Jersey,” says Sandy Huber, executive director of the council. “We applaud John Wohlrab for his leadership and integrity in the waste industry.”

“I am delighted to accept this Environmental Quality Award on behalf of Waste Management of New Jersey and our employees,” said Wohlrab. “The amazing recovery under way in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy has shown us what we can do when we work together for the betterment of our communities, our state, and the environment as a whole.