St Tammany Parish President Mike Cooper announced to Cross Gates residents in a letter that you should have received on Thursday, that a new contractor will begin providing our garbage service beginning on February 3, 2020.

Same collection days, slightly lower fees, small changes in what plastics can be recycled.

The Parish letter says:

IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING CHANGES TO YOUR GARBAGE COLLECTION SERVICE

Effective February 3, 2020, Coastal Environmental Services (Coastal) will begin servicing your home for the collection, transportation and disposal of residential solid waste, and separated recyclable material.

We are pleased to notify you that with this change the cost of your monthly garbage service will be decreased by 70 cents per month to $19.90, with no changes to your existing service. You will see this price decrease reflected on your February Tammany Utilities bill.

Coastal will continue with the existing schedule of solid waste pick-up twice per week (Monday and Thursday) and recyclable materials once per week (Wednesday). Please have waste curbside prior to 6:00 am. Find attached Coastal contact and service information.

Beginning January 27, 2020, Coastal will begin delivery of one (1) 96-gallon cart for solid waste and one (1) 18-gallon bin for recyclables to all customers. Please note that delivery to all customers will take several days and Coastal has indicated that all carts and bins will be delivered by February 1, 2020.

Waste Management will perform their final recycling pick up on Wednesday, January 29^th and the final residential solid waste pick up on Thursday, January 30^th.

We ask that you please leave Waste Management recycling bins and carts at the curb after their final pick up for recycling on Wednesday, January 29^th and residential solid waste on Thursday, January 30^th so that Waste Management can collect them. It will take several days for the carts to be collected so we ask for your patience and understanding during this time. If for any reason you are unable to leave your cart or bin at the curb on this day please place at the curb as soon as possible. Waste Management will be making several sweeps of the area to collect carts and bins and the collection process may take up to a week.

If you have any issues with either the pickup or delivery of new carts or bins, please contact Tammany Utilities at 985-643-1376.

Please click the links for full details and how the collection can swap should work:

Parish Letter
Coastal Flyer 
Coastal Flyer page 2