Caddo Parish, LA Trash & Recycling: Bin Placement Rules (2026)

UDC § 7.3.T, Refuse Containers, Dumpsters, and Recycling Containers, is the parish's general rule for where trash equipment can sit on a lot. Individual rolling trash bins, the kind picked up curbside, must be stored along the interior side or rear façade of the house (§ 7.3.T.4). The only exception is when the cart has to be moved out for pickup; it does not have to stay tucked against the house on collection day. The same section separately bars dumpsters and recycling containers, as distinct from individual carts, from the front or corner side yard and from any public right-of-way (§ 7.3.T.1), and requires a three-sided solid enclosure six to eight feet tall for those larger containers (§ 7.3.T.2).

Refuse equipment also cannot be positioned so its disposal area drains toward a storm drain or off the lot, and dumpsters must stay covered rather than draining freely onto pavement (§ 7.3.T.3). Properties that existed before the Code's effective date and were not previously required to enclose their dumpsters or recycling containers are grandfathered out of that enclosure rule, unless the site is later redeveloped or the existing building or parking lot is expanded (§ 7.3.T.5).