Wealth in Garbage: Waste Disposal Worker Finds 18 Million Naira Cash In Rubbish

A worker at a waste
disposal site has found
10,000 yen cash in a
stream of pulverised
rubbish, police say.
"There were about a
thousand (10,000) yen (N
18, 080, 000) bills that came
out of a pulveriser
unscathed," a spokesman at
the Asaminami police
department in Hiroshima
prefecture, in Japan's west,
said today.
He added that there were
also 2300 fragments of bills
destroyed by the machine at
a municipal facility that
processes large waste, such
as cupboards and
mattresses, that cannot be
collected by regular garbage
pick-up.
Police suspect the owner of
the cash might have
forgotten the money was
there when he or she threw
away some furniture.
"We believe it is unlikely
there is anything criminal in
this, although we must say
we don't know much about
this money at all," the
spokesman said.
The cash was found on
Monday. If no one comes
forward within three
months, the waste disposal
facility will have the right to
claim the money, the
spokesman said.