COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Many popular social media accounts are filled with stories of “hauls” gleaned from dumpsters behind stores and furniture items picked from neighborhood curbs on trash day.

In 1988, the Supreme Court ruled that police can legally search discarded garbage without a search warrant. Though the case ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Many popular social media accounts are filled with stories of “hauls” gleaned from dumpsters behind stores and furniture items picked from neighborhood curbs on trash day.

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.

Columbus City Schools had already committed to being carbon-free by 2050 and having 100% clean energy by 2035, but this week, the Columbus Board of Education passed a policy that set benchmarks to ...

If you're thinking of going dumpster diving, make sure you know if scavenging at certain places is legal or not. Here's what ...