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Residents of nearly three dozen Pittsburgh neighborhoods will collect litter this weekend in the city’s annual Garbage Olympics. Teams from 34 neighborhoods across the city and Penn Hills will compete to gather the most garbage in the seventh annual Garbage Olympics event. Pittsburgh’s Department of Public Works and the Clean
The competitive litter pickup event will be held from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 23, in 35 Pittsburgh neighborhoods, plus Penn Hills.
Pittsburgh officials say they are expecting this year’s sixth annual Garbage Olympics to break records when it’s held later this month. The first citywide cleanup event held in 2017 drew just five teams. Last year’s event attracted 46 teams with over 620 volunteers who collected nearly 1,200 bags of trash,
As University of Pittsburgh students move in to their off-campus housing, some Oakland residents are concerned about trash dumped on sidewalks and front lawns. The university says it works to ensure students are acting as good neighbors. Some Oakland residents seem to disagree. “August is always particularly challenging in Oakland,”