Americans Throw Away Almost USD$70MM in Coins Every Year

[taiwan_girl]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/elizabethharris/2016/10/24/americans-throw-62-million-worth-of-coins-in-the-trash-each-year-heres-a-plan-to-cut-that/?sh=f3ded11130b6

(NOTE: this is an older article. I just saw one in the Wall Street Journal, but you guys would not have been able to read it. The info in the old article is pretty much the same.)

Know that financial cliché about “throwing money away?” Turns out it’s actually — literally — true. As Bloomberg reported earlier this month, Americans chuck an estimated $62 million in coins into the trash each year.

“The coins get swept off restaurant tables, mixed in with scraps when people empty their pockets, and vacuumed up from carpets or sofa cushions,” said Bloomberg.

[Horace]

The government spent $100MM last year to fund this study about how much Americans threw away in coins last year. They wrote a check for the funding, so that explains why it wasn't counted in the results.