Refuse collectors help Italian woman recover binned €1m lottery ticket

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 rubbish 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 was “miraculously still in one piece” after garbage workers combed through mounds of rubbish on their truck, said Roberto Nicola Toscano, the administrator of the SANB compan...

By Agence France-Presse in Rome

Lost US$1.15 million lottery ticket dug out of trash by Italian binmen

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 Roberto Nicola Toscano, the administrator of the SANB company in Italy’s southern Puglia region. Toscano explained how when the winner went on Sunday to check her ticket at her...

By Agence France-Presse

Italy: Garbage workers help woman find €1 million jackpot

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.

Italian refuse collectors help recover €1m lottery ticket

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

Italian garbagemen help recover lost 1 mln euro lottery ticket

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.

Italian garbagemen rescue €1M winning lottery ticket

Waste management workers in Italy successfully recovered a misplaced lottery ticket worth 1 million euros ($1.08 million) from the trash after a frantic winner called on them to he...