“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 ...

There were fishing poles, cinder blocks, liquor bottles and golf balls in the tiny portion of Lake Mille Lacs that a scuba dive team sampled over the past week, but it was far less rubbish than they ...

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 ...

More than 1,600 pounds of trash was plucked from the ocean over the course of a month as part of the eighth annual Cash Trash Bash fundraiser. Karen Plianthos, the founder of the event, said this year ...

Finding a good deal is always fun, but getting something you need for free is even better. TikToker Emma (@emmaaberin) posted a video about a vacuum cleaner that she and her significant other found ...

FORT WORTH, Texas -- The secret to economic survival this year may lie in the dumpster. Just ask Jeff Ferrell, a professor at Texas Christian University who spends part of his day buried in trash. The ...

As the saying goes, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. That’s especially true when it comes to dumpster diving, an activity that involves searching through commercial dumpsters and garbage ...