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Don't put your garbage out on New Year's Day. Due to the holiday, the waste schedule is changing up for next week.

Allied Waste and the Recycling Foundation will not collect garbage, nor recycling, on Thanksgiving Day.  Customers who normally receive garbage or recycling collection on Thursday or Friday will receive collection the day following their regular collection this week...

Garbage and recycling collection will happen on the Fourth of July in Lafayette Parish.

Hold onto those cans and paper plates! Allied Waste and the Recycling Foundation will not run their regular garbage and recycling collection routes in Lafayette Parish and surrounding parishes on Memorial Day. All customers will receive garbage and recycling service on the day following their regularly scheduled collection day during the week of Memorial Day...

Good Friday is not a holiday for garbage collectors. Residents in Lafayette Parish who have regularly-scheduled garbage or recycling collection on Friday, will receive those services on Friday, as both Allied Waste and the Recycling Foundation will work on Good Friday.

As this video begins, one is impressed with the speed with which this garbage man jumps from his truck and begins disposing of the waiting trash bags. Now that’s one dedicated civil servant. However, things quickly take a turn when his haste becomes rage and he begins smashing a trash bin on the side of his truck.

Some changes to the residential waste collection schedule happen during Mardi Gras week.  Customers who have regular Monday service with Allied Waste and the Recycling Foundation will receive their usual garbage and recycling service. There will be no garbage or recycling service on Mardi Gras day, so regular Tuesday customers will receive collection on Wednesday...

Some businesses will be closed on Martin Luther King Day, but Allied Waste and the Recycling Foundation will run their regular garbage and recycling collection routes.  There will be no changes to the waste collection service for Lafayette residents the entire week...

The strong wind this morning is knocking over the automated garbage carts used by Lafayette residents. Allied apologizes for the inconvenience, but for safety reasons, they cannot have the single person on each automated garbage truck getting out to right garbage carts.

Whether you use paper plates or fine china for your Thanksgiving get-together, there's always trash to get rid of. Here's the plan for Lafayette: There will be no garbage or recycling collection on Thanksgiving day in Lafayette.

Allied Waste and the Recycling Foundation will not run their regular garbage and recycling collection routes in Lafayette Parish on the Labor Day.  All regular Monday through Friday customers will receive garbage and recycling service on the day following their regularly scheduled collection day during the holiday week...

Remember when planning those Fourth of July get-togethers that there will be changes to the waste collection schedule next week. Allied Waste and the Recycling Foundation will not run their regular garbage and recycling collection routes in Lafayette Parish on the Fourth of July.

Allied Waste and the Recycling Foundation will not run their regular garbage and recycling collection routes in Lafayette Parish on Memorial Day. All customers will receive garbage and recycling service on the day following their regularly scheduled collection day during the week of Memorial Day...

If your regular garbage or recycling collection day is Friday, you will receive service on Good Friday. For those persons in the cities of Lafayette and Carencro, and in unincorporated areas of  Lafayette Parish, excess garbage outside of the automated cart will be collected  next week if it is bagged, and each bag does not exceed 35 pounds...