Heads Up Calcasieu Parish, Your Garbage Pickup Times Have Changed

The holiday season is here and coming up Thursday, folks around Southwest Louisiana will be celebrating Thanksgiving with friends and family. People will be cooking big meals to feed the entire family, resulting in a lot of trash accumulating.

With the holiday comes closures of businesses, facilities, and services you are used to having daily.  Banks, city and state agencies, and local public services will all be shut down to observe the Thanksgiving holiday.

For Calcasieu Parish residents, the Calcasieu Parish Police Jury and other departments will be closed on Thursday, November 28, 2024, and Friday, November 29, 2024, in observance of Thanksgiving. Regular hours will resume on Monday, December 2, 2024.

Now as far as when will your trash be picked up next week, the scheduled pick-up times and days have been altered due to the city observing the holiday for two days. Laura Heller with the Calcasieu Parish Police Jury gave us all the information you will need to know about what day your trash will be picked up next week.

She said,

Waste Management will also be closed on Thanksgiving. As a result, services will change for customers with scheduled pickups on Thursday and Friday. Garbage and trash normally picked up on Thursday will be picked up on Friday and garbage and trash normally picked up on Friday will be picked up on Saturday. Call Waste Management at 337-436-7229 with any questions concerning this schedule or visit www.wm.com/alerts for up-to-date service information.

In addition, the Solid Waste Convenience Centers, located at 5500 B Swift Plant Road in Lake Charles and at 2915 Post Oak Road in Sulphur, will also be closed on Thursday, Nov. 28. They will reopen at 7 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 29.

So make a note of that and also make sure you have your trash cans out before 7:00 am on the day it will be collected. Have a great Thanksgiving.