If you're anticipating issues with the neighbor, give your local municipality a shout. There are very likely rules that will dictate who is allowed to do what, when, and if there's any notification necessary.

For instance, your borough/whatever may have ordinances in place that allow any homeowner the right to remove tree limbs hanging over their property, if they're in danger of causing damage. If that's the case, you should be completely within your rights to have the tree pruned without needing to involve the neighbor - but check with your local borough manager or whomever, first.

At the very least, they'll already be aware that you're trying to be a good community member IF/WHEN the evil neighbor tries to raise a stink about it.

Nope as soon as that object is washed with water it is a net negative for the environment.

To clarify, the radio stuff I don't need is mainly embedded systems stuff (900MHz and 2.4GHz transceiver modules, for Raspberry Pi class systems), not consumer or ham gear.

Also interested in hearing more about the radio gear!

https://hackpgh.org/

Any recycling company that picks up plastic wrap is either going to send it to a landfill or ship it somewhere to be incinerated. No one is recycling plastic wrap. Something like 95% of plastic can't be recycled at all, and what can be recycled can't be reused in the same type of product. Just trash it. That might actually be the most environmentally friendly option at this point, given that plastic bags tend to cause jams at recycling sorting plants. The actual goal here is using less plastic, but of course that's not entirely on you, you can't control how companies package things.

I see some comments already saying shit like "recycling in Pittsburgh is a scam" - no, it works this way literally everywhere in the entire world.

Recycling plastic is often less useful than we would like to think, but recycling metals and paper are absolutely not worthless.

Think before making a blanket statement like this.

Don’t make excuses for not using reusables

OP. It is prob worth getting a survey, flagging the corners, and maybe get them to flag the property line where the trees are. And then take lots of pics. All good for a crazy neighbor who may dispute everything, move the flags, etc etc. You'll get a paper copy but it's much easier to tell everything irl from the flags.

Survey should be $500-800 or so, maybe a little more if they flag the corners.

This is idiotic. Some recycling is ineffective but not all. Don't make excuses for laziness.

You first need to figure out exactly where you live. If it's the city itself or another municipality. And go from there. And you can't figure that out by the zip code.

https://pittsburghpa.gov/press-releases/press-releases/5827

Please down vote me a hundred times because you're offended. I'm right and if that bothers you, you don't actually get the issue at hand.

Township building sells and home Depot etc sell them. Recycling in Pittsburgh is a joke though. :) It's just a scam for the company to get more money, as they combine it all together off site.

Throw it away. It doesn’t magically make it anywhere different than your regular trash

Yeah I try to be conscious of it, but just relocated here, and first place on my own, so I was gifted new sets of pots/pans, dish ware, containers, etc which has a horrendous amount of plastic wrap and card board 👎

Recycling is worthless. Use less is the only answer.

It’s not like an apt complex, old home turned into units so I’m pretty sure normal garbage pick ups. But I will for sure reach out to them! ( I’m from FL and only been here 2 days 😂 so I’m just trynna figure things out!)

I'm a garbage man for the city of Pittsburgh. We don't pick up apt buildings with more than 4 units. But you're not in Pittsburgh proper, so yea, talk to your landlord/property management.

What kind of radio gear?

Yes, contact your landlord. Also contact your municipality for any drop off locations. The City ones that are linked by a previous poster are generally meant for City of Pittsburgh residents, though suburbanites aren't stopped from coming in to use these services.

I live in Crafton/ Green Tree. So I can take all of the plastic shrink wrap and such to giant eagle, As well as the plastic grocery bags? Then for the recycling drop off, all the broken down/flattened cardboard, needs to be tied right? & yes it is apt with 5 units, so I should request the blue bin with my landlord? My unit neighbors have one just not us.

>Nobody recycles plastic bags & wrap.

YAY! thanks!