Undercover school bag retrieved after accidentally thrown into garbage truck
Undercover school bag retrieved after accidentally thrown into garbage truck
2025-06-16
Dealing with recent relentless rainfall, one mother in Southern Taiwan decided to put her child’s school bag in a plastic bag to keep it dry. But the child’s grandmother mistook it for trash and accidently threw it into the garbage truck. The mother hurriedly chased down the truck, and with the sanitation workers’ assistance was thankfully able to recover her child’s school bag.
On a rainy day, a woman throws two trash bags into the garbage truck. But she didn’t know that one of the bags had a child’s school bag inside.
Tseng Shih-hung
Garbage truck driver
That mom rode her scooter, chasing us in a panic. She told me she used a plastic bag from the supermarket to wrap her child’s school bag, but the grandmother didn’t know and threw it out thinking it was trash.
The mother chased the garbage truck on her scooter, finally catching up with it four stops later. She asked the sanitation workers for help recovering the bag.
Tseng Shih-hung
Garbage truck driver
The mom kept pleading with me, saying that all her child’s things for studying are in there. I thought, okay, the trash has only been pushed down once and isn’t so messy yet, so I’ll dig through and see.
Two sanitation workers climbed onto the truck and began taking out trash one bag at a time. They found the school bag pushed into a corner, still wrapped up in a plastic bag.
Tseng Shih-hung
Garbage truck driver
It was at about this area here. If the trash had been pressed one or two more times, it would have been pushed inside and there would be no way to get it out.
According to regulations, once trash has been thrown into the garbage truck, you need to submit an application to look for it before it goes through the incinerator. Much to this mother’s relief, the sanitation workers saw her anxiety and agreed to help dig through the garbage right away.
Tseng Shih-hung
Garbage truck driver
Usually, a whole mountain of trash goes into the incinerator. It’s even harder to find something. The chances are much slimmer.
Thankfully there was not much trash that day and the mother was able to retrieve her child’s school bag. This is a good reminder to look through your trash before throwing it out.
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塑膠袋裝小孩書包防雨"被當垃圾丟" 媽媽一路狂追垃圾車
2025-06-16
近日南部接連下雨，有家長為了不讓孩子的書包弄濕，把書包放進塑膠袋內，沒想到晚上卻被阿媽當成垃圾，整包丟進垃圾車，媽媽發現後一路追趕，還好在清潔人員幫助下，最後成功在垃圾車內，成功撈出書包。
下雨天婦人撐著傘來倒垃圾，把手中塑膠袋，往垃圾車一丟，渾然不知丟掉的，竟然是孫子的書包。
[[垃圾車駕駛 曾士鴻]]
“那個媽媽騎車，很慌張地衝過來，跟我說她用超市的袋子，包她兒子的書包，結果被阿媽當成垃圾丟了，阿媽不知道”
孩子的媽媽騎機車，追了四個站點，終於趕上垃圾車，想請清潔人員幫忙把書包挖出來。
[[垃圾車駕駛 曾士鴻]]
“媽媽就一直拜託我，說那個都小孩子讀書的東西，我想說，好，才剛攪一次，垃圾還沒有到很亂，我挖挖看”
兩名清潔人員爬上車斗，一包一包的挖出來，就在角落發現疑似的塑膠袋，書包終於順利找到了。
[[垃圾車駕駛 曾士鴻]]
“它還在大概外面這位置，如果再壓個一次、兩次，進去之後就掉不出來了”
糊塗家長誤丟孩子書包，依照規定，垃圾只要丟進垃圾車，就要提出申請，前往焚化爐尋找，但清潔人員體諒到家長焦急的心情，出手幫忙挖垃圾。
[[垃圾車駕駛 曾士鴻]]]
“進焚化爐通常就是一整座小山，更難找，機會更渺茫”
還好當天垃圾不多，書包才能找回，因此還是請民眾丟垃圾前，務必好好檢查。
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