A new extreme-green movement is on the rise in cities across the United States, from Seattle to Chicago, to Houston and New York. "Freegans" oppose over-consumption and capitalism. They live their ...

Before June of this year, I thought only the sad and desperate ate garbage. Then I discovered the freegans. For those new to the term (free + vegan), a freegan is a person who has decided to boycott ...

There I stood, shin-deep in half-rotted produce inside a Dumpster on the heebie-jeebie side of Tampa, locked in a buzzing, tunnel-vision state of total focus. It was dark, but I was feverish, high on ...

On a cold March night in New York City, snow still on the ground from a late-season nor’easter, a small group gathered around a pile of trash outside a Morton Williams supermarket in Midtown East.

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A new movement in Singapore that seeks to reduce the amount of consumer waste in the affluent city-state is scavenging for unwanted goods, some in near-mint condition, that ...