Caddo Parish, LA Trash & Recycling: Collection Schedule (2026)

Unlike an incorporated city with a weekly truck route, unincorporated Caddo Parish handles residential disposal through a network of self-haul collection sites. Sec. 42-21 states the sites "are intended for the use of parish residents to dispose of household garbage and trash" and caps each visit: "No individual may dispose of more than 180 gallons of household waste per trip." Only waste that can be handled at the Shreveport landfill is accepted, since the parish contracts disposal capacity there rather than owning its own landfill.

Sec. 42-25 restricts use to people who actually live in the parish: "No person may deposit any item, material or substance at a parish waste collection site unless legally domiciled in the parish," so residents of Shreveport, Vivian, Blanchard, Oil City, Greenwood or Mooringsport (all separately incorporated with their own collection arrangements) cannot use the parish sites. Sec. 42-23 lists what a container may never hold, including commercial or industrial waste, construction debris, dead animals, white goods, and yard waste such as grass, weeds, pine straw, twigs and tree trimmings, meaning those materials need separate arrangements.

Sec. 42-24 makes it unlawful to leave material outside a container or to remove items already placed in one, which covers scavenging as well as illegal side-dumping at the sites themselves. There is no assigned collection day because there is no truck route to a household; the schedule question in Caddo Parish is really a site-hours and site-location question, not a weekly pickup calendar, and that structure has been unchanged since it was codified from Code 1985, § 10-15 through Ord. No. 2890 in 1992.