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

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.

Workers at a sorting facility in Italy have spent hours sifting through rubbish bags in a search for a discarded million euro 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…