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

Caddo Parish Code of Ordinances § 42-23, in the article governing the parish's solid waste collection sites, lists six categories of items that 'may not be placed in container,' meaning the garbage and trash containers the parish places at its collection sites for residents' household waste. Item (6) on that list is 'grass, weeds, pine straw, twigs and tree trimmings,' placing ordinary yard waste in the same excluded category as construction debris, dead animals, white goods like refrigerators and water heaters, and any commercial or industrial trash.

Section 42-21 explains why: the sites are intended for household garbage and trash that can be disposed of at the Shreveport landfill or recycled at the Shreveport recycling center, and each site caps a single resident's drop-off at 180 gallons of household waste per trip. Because yard debris does not qualify as household garbage or trash under § 42-22's definitions, it has no place at those sites at all, not merely a volume limit. The parish's separate answer for yard waste is burning: Caddo Parish Code of Ordinances § 32-90(b)(1) exempts a private property owner from the parish's general no-burning rule when he burns leaves, grass, twigs, branches, and vines on his own property for noncommercial purposes, so long as he attends the burn the entire time it is going.

Residents who cannot or do not want to burn yard debris themselves must arrange private hauling, since the ordinance gives the parish's own collection sites no yard-waste function, and dumping it at a collection site is itself a violation of § 42-23.