Nicholasville, KY Trash & Recycling: Collection Schedule (2026)

Chapter 18 of the Nicholasville Code of Ordinances puts the duty to have garbage service on the property owner. Under § 18-3(a), the city provides for collection of solid waste as the chapter describes, and the owner of every residential property in the city limits is responsible for garbage service at that property. The weekly floor is in § 18-3(C): all residential solid waste, other than bulky rubbish, is collected at least once weekly.

The line between residential and commercial service comes from the definitions in § 18-1. Residential solid waste is waste from the maintenance and operation of dwelling units, excluding multiple housing facilities with more than four dwelling units. Those larger multiple housing facilities fall into commercial solid waste, along with commercial, industrial, institutional and agricultural establishments. Commercial waste has no fixed weekly number: § 18-3(C) says it is collected at intervals necessary for the preservation of the health and safety of the public.

Chapter 18 does not print a weekday or a route map. Section 18-5(7) directs the city to make, amend, revoke and enforce rules on the schedule of and routes for collection, so a household's pickup day is set under those rules rather than by the text of the chapter. Section 18-3(b) ties set-out to that schedule by barring containers, tree limbs and yard wastes from the roadside before the regularly scheduled collection day. Section 18-7 imposes a service charge for each dwelling unit and each commercial establishment served, and § 18-5(10) lets the city set fees for collection and disposal by rule.