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Cleaners help tourists find important cell phone missing in tons of garbage
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TWO tourists from Beijing told the media that they were most grateful to a team of 15 local sanitation workers who had spent nearly three hours combing through about five tons of garbage in Huangpu District under scorching heat to help them retrieve a lost iPhone.
Beijing tourist Zhang Xiaoliang and his girl friend who came to Shanghai to attend a conference left an iPhone on the dining table after they had lunch at Nanxiang Xiaolong (steamed dumplings) restaurant in the Yuyuan Garden area at noon on July 30.
They later rushed to the restaurant after realizing the mistake and making the loss worse was that the phone had very important conference materials in it. But the phone was already missing.
They found out through GPS that the phone was dumped at a garbage bin outside the restaurant but when they reached it, it happened to have been just cleaned up by sanitation workers.
The phone was further tracked to be at a garbage station near the Chenghuang Temple after the collection. But the signal was completely lost when they reached the station.
They saw garbage had been packed up and uploaded onto garbage trucks, and assumed that the phone was inside the packs because there was no signal anymore.
"We realized that it was very difficult to find the phone which had been set on silent mode amongst tons of garbage," Zhang said.
They resorted to sanitation workers of the station for help. The workers were taking a rest then while Han Yiming, the leader of the sanitation workers of Shanghai Xinyuan Environment and Hygiene Service Co Ltd, decided to start the search immediately.
Han said they would try their best to find the phone, Zhang recalled.
Five tons of garbage was about half the usual daily amount of wastes produced in the area and when garbage was already compressed, it would be more difficult to find the phone inside, Han said.
He gathered 15 workers, including some who were sent from home, and they started opening bags of garbage one by one.
After three hours of search under summer heat, the phone was finally found at 4:20pm.
These workers spent some more time repackaging these garbage and cleaning the roads after that.
The tourists wanted to give 1,000 yuan (US$151.51) to Han to express their gratitude, and was turned down.
"It is our responsibility," Han said.
Zhang posted an article online to thank these workers, and it was reposted many times online by Netizens.
"You sacrificed rest time and worked under sizzling temperature to help us find the phone, which moved us deeply," Zhang said in the article.
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