Sure, it’s always nice to get a great deal on beauty products, and what’s a better deal than 100% off? “Dumpster Diving” — the art of sourcing still-usable items from the trash — is nothing new, but ...

Whether you turn your nose up at the act of dumpster diving or applaud the effort to reduce the $48.3 billion in annual food waste across the U.S., the question of its legality surfaces every so often ...

As a county, we waste too much usable stuff. Businesses throw out overstock or out of season supplies and billions of pounds of edible food each year. At home, we do the same thing on a smaller scale.

Some are fond of coin collecting or studying genealogy, while others enjoy rifling through trash bins seeking a prized find, a practice known colloquially as “dumpster diving.” As the saying goes, ...