Waste workers help recover winner’s almost $2m binned lottery ticket in Italy

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.

If the ticket had been discarded on any other day, their luck would have run out.

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

A lottery player who accidentally binned a €1m (£857,158) winning-ticket may be the luckiest man in Italy after refuse workers found the missing slip.

A lottery player in Italy threw out the winning ticket at a local tobacconist after a self-service lottery terminal displayed the message "not payable."

The player only realised he binned the life-changing ticket after family told him the numbers he played for years had been drawn.

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 binmen to help her retrieve it, the waste management company said. The instant win ticket was “miraculously still in one piece” after rubbish workers combed through mounds of trash on their truck, said

A woman who won €1 million mistakenly threw her lottery ticket in a trash bin in Bitonto, southern Italy — prompting her local sanitation company to launch an hourslong search.

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.

"Our players deserve confidence that every Lottery prize is protected."