Curbside Collection


Curbside garbage collection services are provided to residences and small businesses with active water meters that are being billed for garbage collection. Vacant lots do not pay garbage fees; therefore, garbage/trash in front of vacant lots will not be collected.

Jefferson Parish collects the following: 

Twice per week collection of:

  • Garbage: Jefferson Parish provides for collection of containerized household garbage twice per week. The Parish has implemented automated or semi-automated service and has provided a specific container (95 gal. tipper cart) which is the only acceptable container to be used. 

Once per week collection of: 

  • Bulky Waste: Furniture, tree debris, and other items that will not fit in the cart are collected once per week from residential units only. Items can be no longer than six (6) feet in length and/or four hundred (400) pounds. Smaller pieces of concrete or shingles must be containerized. Total volume placed curbside for collection shall not exceed six (6) cubic yards per pick-up day.

  • White Goods: Large appliances such as refrigerators, ranges, water heaters, freezers, washers or any other similar large domestic appliance, are collected once per week from residential units only (limit four (4) per address per week). 

  • Tires: Automotive and small truck tires are collected once per week from residential units only. (limit four (4) tires per address per week). 

FOR ALL RESIDENTS OF UNINCORPORATED JEFFERSON PARISH AND THE TOWN OF JEAN LAFITTE THAT RECEIVE CURBSIDE GARBAGE SERVICE, THE FOLLOWING HOLIDAYS WILL BE OBSERVED IN 2024:

 
  • New Year's Day - Monday, January 1, 2024
  • Martin Luther King Day - Monday, January 15, 2024
  • Mardi Gras Day - Tuesday, February 13, 2024
  • Independence Day - Thursday, July 4, 2024
  • Labor Day - Monday, September 2, 2024
  • Thanksgiving Day - Thursday, November 28, 2024
  • Christmas Day - Wednesday, December 25, 2024
 

THERE WILL BE NO GARBAGE COLLECTION ON THE HOLIDAY. ALL TRASH DROP-OFF SITES AND THE PARISH LANDFILL WILL BE CLOSED.

THERE IS NO MAKEUP DAY FOR THE MISSED COLLECTION; GARBAGE WILL NOT BE PICKED UP UNTIL YOUR NEXT SCHEDULED COLLECTION DAY.

Call or email Environmental Affairs at (504) 731-4614 or River Birch Renewable Energy at (504) 867-2730 to: 

    • Report a missed pickup
    • Dead animal removal 
    • Cart repair
    • Purchase additional cart

Call or email Environmental Affairs at (504) 731-4614 to: 

    • Request new garbage service (residential/commercial new account)
    • Question about bill
    • Report a garbage code violation
    • Report illegal dumping
    • Dumpster violations