Waste schedule for the Christmas Holiday announced

Allied Waste and the Recycling Foundation will run their regularly scheduled garbage and recycling collection routes the week of Christmas, December 20-24. 

The week following Christmas, December 27-31, residents in the cities of Lafayette and Carencro, and in unincorporated areas of Lafayette Parish will receive collection of excess garbage outside of the automated garbage cart.

Residents are asked to first fill their 96-gallon garbage cart, then any excess household garbage resulting from holiday celebrations must be bagged and placed several feet away from the cart.  Each bag of garbage should not exceed 35 pounds, and garbage should not be placed in boxes. Large empty boxes will also be collected the week following Christmas, with only the original packing material in the box on the ground.   

Natural Christmas trees will be collected by Allied Waste, but because the trees-for-coastal- restoration program was cut from the state budget, Lafayette’s Christmas trees will instead be recycled into mulch, so residents must totally clean discarded trees of all lights and ornaments before placing them curbside for collection. There is no deadline for placing discarded natural Christmas trees out for collection.

Discarded artificial Christmas trees may be placed on the ground for collection the week following Christmas and the week following New Year. 

Any Lafayette Parish resident may drop off a cleaned natural Christmas tree, at no charge, at the Lafayette Consolidated Government Compost Facility at 400 Dugas Road.

The Compost Facility will be closed at noon on Thursday, December 23, all day Friday, December 24, and on Christmas Day.