recycling

A rare winter storm is impacting trash and recycling services in New Orleans.

Bags of oyster shells once slurped on at New Orleans restaurants clinked against each other as volunteers tossed them onto trucks, then boats, on Friday, set to return to the water to help save an eroding Indian mound of Plaquemines Parish’s west bank.

After Mardi Gras in 2019, garbage trucks collected 1,300 tons of trash, or about 2.6 million pounds, when the revelry was over. In the past, the city has…

As New Orleans heads into the second weekend of Jazz Fest, hundreds of thousands of people are looking forward to listening to local music, and eating and…

For all you Grinches out there chomping at the bit to get rid of your Christmas tree, you might want to wait until January. Several local governments will…

Although Mardi Gras is all about excess, the piles of abandoned beads, cups and recyclable trash left in a parade's wake are nothing to celebrate. In…

On this week's edition of All Things New Orleans, we'll chat with Miriam Arkin and Casey Coleman, of Court 13 Arts, about their upcoming Always for…

The Nacogdoches City Council will consider an agreement Tuesday to recycle all of its mattresses that enter its landfill. The mattresses would go to a...

In spite of a nationwide increase in environmental consciousness, recycling efforts in Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes have not had widespread public…

This is it, we’re closing out our recycling journey, and it all ends with glass.New Orleans still does not recycle glass. I know! It’s sad, but don’t…