New York City sanitation workers dug through 20,000 pounds of garbage to ensure that one man’s trash didn’t also mean the loss of his treasure. Stream San Diego News for free, 24/7, wherever you are with NBC 7. “It isn’t exactly a needle in a haystack, but some accidentally discarded rings were dug up!,” the DSNY wrote on Facebook. A Brooklyn resident recently realized some irreplaceable heirlooms were accidentally thrown out, and contacted us the second he realized it. After each call, sanitation workers aim to isolate the truck and slowly dump the contents on a concrete floor to be sifted through.