City to Expand Recycling Drop-Off Program,
Adds Second Drop-Off Day Each Month
NEW ORLEANS – Due to increased demand, starting in August,
2018, the City of New Orleans Department of Sanitation will add another day each
month to its Recycling Drop-Off Center schedule. The Recycling Drop-Off Center,
located at 2829 Elysian Fields Ave., will be open on the second and fourth
Saturdays of each month from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
On
the second and fourth Saturdays of each month, Orleans Parish residents can
drop off paper products (newspapers, junk mail, phone books, catalogs, office
paper and color inserts); plastics #1 through #7 (water, soda, juice,
detergent, plastic pots from nurseries, plastic bags, etc.); metals (aluminum,
tin and steel cans); cardboard; boxboard (cereal boxes); Mardi Gras beads;
batteries (AA, AAA, AAAA, C, D, 6-volt, 9-volt and Lithium); light bulbs
(incandescent and fluorescent); electronics (computers, laptops, phones and
televisions, limit 4), microwave ovens (limit 4); tires (limit 4), glass (limit
50 pounds.) and organics for composting (frozen fruit/vegetable scraps such as
peels, skins, pits and seeds; tea bags; coffee grounds; paper coffee filters;
eggshells; nutshells; seed shells; plain bread; grains and plain pasta (no
toppings, meat, bones, dairy or foods with oil).
Fall and Winter 2018 Drop-Off Schedule
AUG. 11, 2018 NOV. 10, 2018
AUG. 25, 2018 NOV. 24, 2018
SEPT. 8, 2018 DEC. 8, 2018 **
SEPT. 22, 2018 DEC. 22, 2018
OCT. 13, 2018 **
OCT. 27, 2018
** SHRED DAY. Limit 50 pounds
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