A man who mistakenly tossed $23,000 into recyling bin reunited with his life savings Saturday after a worker at a recyling facility in Northern California spotted a shoebox stuffed with money.
Huffpost reports that when the man from Ashland, Oregon, realised his mistake on Thursday, the recyling bin had already been emptied into a truck bound for the Recology sorting facility in Humboldt County.
The facility's general manager told the Santa-Rosa Press Demcrat most of the recyclables from the truck had been sorted by the time the man contacted Recology. Workers were nonetheless told to be on the look out for the box.
Someone spotted the box down the sorting line on Friday and recovered all but $320. The money somehow stayed in the box during 200-mile trip to the facility.
SOURCE: https://www.tori.ng