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Customers who normally receive garbage or recycling collection on Thursday or Friday will receive collection the day following their regular collection day next week.

Want to be environmentally responsible? Then be careful where you dispose of these household items.

There's always that lingering question that you ask yourself days before a holiday, or the night before. Is trash pickup going to pass on [Insert Holiday].

Starting on Monday, August 29, crew will begin curb-side debris removal from state right of way in Iberia and St. Martin parishes.

For anyone interested in litter abatement, they are also encouraged to attend Project Front Yard's Trash Bash to be held on Saturday, May 2.

Watching someone throw a bottle doesn't sound too riveting, but, guess what, it is.

There will be changes to the residential waste collection schedule for the week of Christmas for customers served by Allied Waste and the Recycling Foundation in Lafayette Parish.

It was announced today that Lafayette Consolidated Government had settled a lawsuit to the tune of $3.4 Million.  That was over the blocking of a waste transfer facility on the city's north side. But was this a good thing?  Some might say that it was a small price to pay to keep it from happening...

It will take through Friday for the crews to finish picking up all 55-hundred barricades.

Services were briefly interrupted during Hurricane Isaac.

Lafayette City-Parish Environmental Manager Mark Pope says trash and recycling routes will run as normal this coming week. New Year's day falling on a Sunday prevents collection confusion.

Allied waste has given their holiday waste schedule.

New Orleans has launched a new public awareness campaign designed to spruce up the city in advance of an upcoming string of high-profile events, including next spring's NCAA Final Four men's basketball championship, the 2012 Sugar Bowl, the BCS National Championship, and Super Bowl XLVII in 2013.