Last Thursday a man tossed $23,000 in cash — which he kept in a shoebox — out in a recycling bin outside of his home, The Press Democrat and KTLA reported. A few hours later, the man realized what he had done and ran outside in hopes of retrieving the money.
However, it was too late as the bin had already been emptied and was en route to California. Desperate to get the cash back, the man called Recology — the recycling company that services his area — and told them what happened, according to the outlet.
Late Thursday night, a truck arrived to the Recology recycling facility in Humboldt County, California with items from Oregon. Workers had been told to keep an eye out for the shoebox.
The next morning while sorting through the recyclables, an employee noticed the box, with money coming out of it, on the sorting line. “We were all excited to see it,” Linda Wise, general manager of the Samoa Resource Recovery Center operated by Recology.