The EPA estimates that about 20 percent of this waste comes from "durable goods," which are products that have a lifetime ...

Dumpster diving is usually associated with people in the developing world who do it out of necessity. But since reusing or ...

A seven-day experiment put dumpster diving to the ultimate test by removing grocery stores entirely from the equation. The challenge quickly revealed how much usable food is discarded every day. While ...

The photos showed produce, snack food, organic oat milk, candy, soup, and packaged meat. Dumpster diving is a way to save money and combat food waste by rescuing discarded items from commercial, ...

SAN ANTONIO — Police say a fetus was found inside a dumpster on Tuesday at a north-side San Antonio apartment complex. Authorities say a man who was dumpster-diving at the Canlen West Apartments on ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The cold nips at Robin Evans as she rifles through a dumpster outside the Dollar Tree, a place she often goes to search for good finds. Holding a flashlight at midnight, she ...

PC parts, in particular memory, have skyrocketed in price over the last few months, thanks largely to AI companies rushing to build massive datacenters. But at least a few people are skipping the ...

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 ...

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 ...

FILE: Organic materials from commercial food waste is piled up before being shredded and taken to an anaerobic digester at a GreenWaste Renewable Energy Digestion Facility in San Jose, Calif., Friday, ...