For anyone curious to try it, safety and legality come first. Always check local laws (some cities ban dumpster diving ...

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.

They found love in a hopeless place. A pair of scavengers from Buffalo — whose romance was kindled at the bottom of a dumpster — say they haven’t let the arrival of a baby curtail their ...

This is Day 3 of surviving entirely on dumpster diving, and things went sideways fast. I got kicked out of a spot I relied on ...

"Had to leave the rest due to my trunk being completely full." Dumpster diver shares shocking photos of discovery inside CVS garbage: 'Dumpster was overflowing' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Trash is everywhere. And humankind is exceedingly talented in producing mountains of it. But far from everything that gets thrown out actually deserves to be dumped in a landfill. There are tons of ...

Dumpster diving has become increasingly popular in recent times thanks to the cost-of-living crisis and a realization that big brands appear to discard perfectly good stock. One woman making a ...

Two singles were down in the dumps — but it’s actually what led to them falling in love. Erin Sheffield, 39, and her husband Dave, 35 met in a dumpster in Buffalo, New York in 2009. Dave was in ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Rob Greenfield of San Diego, Calif. is doing the impossible: he's biking across the country and he isn't paying a penny for food. Greenfield calls himself an environmental activist, ...

Erin and Dave Sheffield of Buffalo, New York, met dumpster diving at the University at Buffalo around 13 years ago. “I was looking through a roll off dumpster that was outside of the building,” Dave ...