Trash company recovers lottery player's discarded $1.15M ticket

A waste collection company in Italy came to the assistance of a Bitonto resident who mistakenly threw away a lottery ticket worth $1.15 million.

Italian garbage workers miraculously recovered a €1 million winning lottery ticket after its owner mistakenly threw it into the trash. Read the full story.

An Italian lottery player’s €1 million prize has been saved by refuse workers who spent two days searching through rubbish for a winning ticket thrown away by mistake.

A lottery player who accidentally threw away a €1million winning ticket has been reunited with his life-changing prize after searching through rubbish.

A province of Bari trash company, Snab, said it has managed to recover a winning one-million-euro lottery ticket and return it to the owner after it was accidentally thrown away. Snab Director Roberto Nicola Toscano told ANSA that it was a "miraculous story," explaining that the person had played their usual numbers in

The ticket was "miraculously still in one piece" after workers searched through piles of trash for more than a day to recover the €1 million (US$1,152,800) prize.

A €1 million (US$1.15 million) lottery ticket was recovered from the trash in Italy after the frantic winner called on garbagemen to help her retrieve it, the waste management company said. The instant win ticket was “miraculously still in one piece” after garbage workers combed through mounds of trash on their truck,

A 1M euro lottery ticket was recovered from the trash in Italy after the frantic winner called on garbagemen to help her retrieve it, the waste management company told AFP.

Winner called waste management team after she realised stub showing she had hit the jackpot had been thrown away A €1m lottery ticket has been recovered from the trash in Italy after the frantic winner called on refuse collectors to help her retrieve it, according to the waste management company. The instant win ticket

A one-million-euro lottery ticket was recovered from the trash in Italy after the frantic winner called on garbagemen to help her retrieve it, the waste management company said.

The workers searched for over a day, finding various tickets and ticket stubs.

A €1 million lottery ticket was recovered from the trash in Italy after the frantic winner called on garbagemen to help her retrieve it, the waste management company told AFP.