Gretna, LA Trash & Recycling: Recycling Requirements (2026)

The City of Gretna does not run its own recycling trucks. Under Sec. 48-34, an authorized recycling contractor is a person or company authorized by a joint local services agreement between the city and Jefferson Parish to collect recyclable material, and the designated recycling collection location is the pickup point named in that same agreement. Once a resident places newspapers, glass, metal cans or other recyclable waste material in a recycling bin at the designated location, Sec. 48-37 makes that material the property of the city; the recycling bins themselves are also city property.

Anyone not authorized by the city who collects, picks up, or causes recyclables to be collected or picked up from a bin violates the article, and an authorized recycling contractor may bring a civil action against a violator under Sec. 48-36, on top of any other city penalty. Sec. on the day before a scheduled recycling pickup, only the authorized contractor may remove recyclable material or recycling bins from a designated location, and each unauthorized removal from each location counts as its own separate offense.

The director of the department of public works and designees enforce Article II under Sec. 48-35, in addition to any enforcement authority police officers already have by law. Sec. 48-40 makes clear the article is aimed only at material actually set out for collection: selling or donating recyclables that were never put out as waste is not restricted.