A €1 million lottery ticket was recovered from the trash in Italy after the frantic winner called on garbagemen to help her retrieve it, the waste management company told AFP. Toscano explained how when the winner went on Sunday to check her ticket at her local shop after the drawing, the machine indicated it was "non-payable". They immediately ran back to the shop, only to discover that the ticket had already been thrown away and the trash collected. "We reconstructed the journey of the ticket, without much hope of finding it, as it had already been picked up by a garbage truck," Toscano told AFP. "Amongst them was the stub we were looking for, which was miraculously still in one piece," Toscano told AFP Tuesday.