Lawton, OK Trash & Recycling: Pickup Rules & Schedules (2026)

City Code Section 22-4-1-404 sets the ground rules that apply to every pickup, not just carts: collectors must exercise reasonable care with storage containers and secure lids, and whoever removes a lid has to put it back. Businesses that generate excessive accumulations of garbage, such as fowl or animal killing/dressing plants, hotels, restaurants, or other food-service establishments, can be excluded from City service, but only after the operator secures a written permit from the licensing officer under Article 7-19; that permit can be revoked whenever the licensing officer decides it is needed for public welfare.

Salvaged automobiles, buses, refrigerators, and heavy dead animals must be removed at the owner's expense by a method the health officer directs, and manure, waste oil, and similar matter must be cleared so it does not become a nuisance; household pet waste is collected only if wrapped and sealed in moisture-proof paper. Meddling with containers, pilfering, scavenging, or junking in any alley or street is flatly prohibited, and unauthorized refuse or junk collection anywhere in the city is banned except as the article itself allows.

Items the City has designated non-collectible in the Solid Waste Set Out Guide cannot be mixed with regular curbside waste; the occupant must dispose of them separately and promptly at their own expense.