This man’s trash would be any man’s treasure.
An Oregon man who accidentally threw out $23,000 of savings was reunited with the old shoebox full of cash over the weekend after an employee at a Northern California recycling facility spotted the fortune.
The Ashland man realized his terrible misfortune this past Thursday — but assumed it was too late. The recycling truck had already picked up his rubbish and was heading for the Recology plant in Humboldt County, which provides garbage management to over 1 million homes in the Pacific Northwest.
The man’s waste had nearly been processed by the time the distressed saver contacted Recology.
“We take quite a bit of material every day, so the odds of finding that are not much better than a needle in a haystack,” Linda Wise, general manager of the Samoa Resource Recovery Center operated by Recology, tells the Press-Democrat.
The workers hunted nonetheless. “But then the box showed up and came down the sorting line, and we were all excited to see it,” says Wise.
When they found the box, they discovered the savings was almost entirely recovered. After a 200-mile trip, the man had only lost $320.
This past weekend, he and his family made the five-hour drive to Humboldt County to retrieve his treasure, says the Santa Rosa news site.
Wise’s employees were thrilled to help.
“Everyone who was on the sorting line was beaming [Friday] morning,” she said. “And now this gentleman will get to have a great weekend.
https://nypost.com/2019/08/05/man-a...w&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow
An Oregon man who accidentally threw out $23,000 of savings was reunited with the old shoebox full of cash over the weekend after an employee at a Northern California recycling facility spotted the fortune.
The Ashland man realized his terrible misfortune this past Thursday — but assumed it was too late. The recycling truck had already picked up his rubbish and was heading for the Recology plant in Humboldt County, which provides garbage management to over 1 million homes in the Pacific Northwest.
The man’s waste had nearly been processed by the time the distressed saver contacted Recology.
“We take quite a bit of material every day, so the odds of finding that are not much better than a needle in a haystack,” Linda Wise, general manager of the Samoa Resource Recovery Center operated by Recology, tells the Press-Democrat.
The workers hunted nonetheless. “But then the box showed up and came down the sorting line, and we were all excited to see it,” says Wise.
When they found the box, they discovered the savings was almost entirely recovered. After a 200-mile trip, the man had only lost $320.
This past weekend, he and his family made the five-hour drive to Humboldt County to retrieve his treasure, says the Santa Rosa news site.
Wise’s employees were thrilled to help.
“Everyone who was on the sorting line was beaming [Friday] morning,” she said. “And now this gentleman will get to have a great weekend.
https://nypost.com/2019/08/05/man-a...w&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow
