Set aside that fear of germs, and dive in! There's no telling what you'll find hiding in the trash.

On a recent summer evening, I found myself on the Upper West Side of Manhattan digging through the trash. My younger self, always afraid of germs, would have never imagined that her future self would ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Click here to read the full article. When I saw my friend Jackie post about going dumpster diving, aka the practice of obtaining ...

Talk about a filthy habit. A cost-conscious woman who ditched a good job to pursue her passion for dumpster diving claims to have saved $50,000 on clothing and other essentials in just two years.

One person’s trash is another person’s holiday treasure. A poverty-stricken mom says she’s resorted to “dumpster diving” to procure Christmas presents for her young son — and has already found $240 ...

On social media, the scene plays out again and again: people plunging into dumpsters and finding discarded treasures like luxury purses, video games and brand-new makeup kits. In recent years, the ...

In this era of ever-rising prices and not enough disposable income to go around, finding a good deal is everything. While for many this means couponing and waiting on seasonal sales, for example, ...

Andrew Sauder recently drove to an ALDI grocery store 20 minutes from campus on a chilly Wednesday night. He parked his car with the trunk facing the dumpster and climbed into the trash where he began ...

“My girlfriend tells me I smell like trash,” says Colin West. And he takes that as a compliment. West spends 40 to 60 hours a week scuba diving Lake Tahoe to locate and remove submerged trash. On the ...

This was supposed to be a normal dive grab lost sunglasses, clean up the mess, go home. Then the river hands me an iPhone 8 ...

When I saw my friend Jackie post about going dumpster diving, aka the practice of obtaining food from trash dumpsters, my first thought was: What new hell are we going through in this country where ...