Shanghai, China - Nov 17, 2016
1. Various of outside Hulin garbage base
2. Various of vehicles carrying garbage
3. Various of vehicle pouring garbage
4. Various of vehicles driving
5. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Tan Bojun, deputy manager, market department of Hulin Garbage Base:
"The garbage sent here at that time was loaded into three containers. We found on our internal system that two of them had been shipped away and the remaining one was still at our dock."
6. Various of vehicles inside garbage base
7. Various of garbage
8. Various of truck carrying container
9. Various of containers loading on truck
10. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Tan Bojun, deputy manager, market department of Hulin Garbage Base:
"Four or five of our staffers had just worked overnight and returned to their rooms for rest. But when they heard it, they came back to help with the search without any complaint."
11. Photos of garbage in container
12. Photos of money found in garbage
13. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Mr. Shang, owner of missing 30,000 US dollars (phone interview):
"I'm very grateful to them, really. I'm really excited and I wanted to give them some money to show my gratitude, but they wouldn't take it."
14. Truck carrying garbage container at dock
15. Ship at dock

A pillow containing 30,000 US dollars was finally found on Nov. 17 in Shanghai by 10 sanitation workers who rummaged 15 tons of garbage for an hour to retrieve the money.

Local resident Mr. Shang came to a garbage transportation base and told the staff there that a pillow containing 30,000 US dollars was thrown away as garbage and he learned from the sanitation workers in his neighborhood that the garbage ended up in the base. So the staff started the search.

"The garbage sent here at that time was loaded in three containers. We found on our internal system that two of them had been shipped away and the remaining one was still at our dock," said Tan Bojun, deputy manager of the market department of Hulin Garbage Base.

In order to help Mr. Shang, the base opened that container and sent 10 workers to help seek the pillow.

"Four of our staffers had just worked overnight and returned to their rooms for rest. But when they heard it, they came back to help with the search without any complaint," said Tan.

Mr. Shang was very thankful.

"I'm very grateful to them, really. I'm really excited and I wanted to give them some money to show my gratitude, but they wouldn't take it," said Mr. Shang.