Eligible New Orleans homes and small businesses get once-weekly curbside trash collection using a free 96-gallon roll cart. Set-out timing is fixed by ordinance, and outside the French Quarter/Downtown district up to 96 gallons is removed per regular collection.
New Orleans provides once-weekly curbside collection to eligible residential properties (typically 4 units or less) and small businesses under City Code Ch. 138. Each eligible property receives one free 96-gallon standard roll cart (holds about 250 lbs). Outside the French Quarter and Downtown Development District, not more than 96 gallons of solid waste per service location is removed at each regular collection; inside those districts the limit is 35 gallons. Solid waste must be curbside before 5:00 a.m. on the collection day but not before 4:00 p.m. the day before (earlier windows apply in the French Quarter/DDD). Garbage must be bagged or in a closed, non-overflowing cart.
Ch. 138 violations are handled through administrative adjudication with civil fines up to the maximum allowed by law, plus costs; setting waste out too early or overflowing carts can be cited.
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