Nicholasville, KY Trash & Recycling: Pickup Rules & Schedules (2026)

Section 18-3(b) of the Nicholasville Code sets the basic pickup rule. Tree limbs and yard wastes are placed at the curbside for collection, and solid waste containers for other residential solid waste are placed at the roadside. Anything permitted to be placed at the roadside, whether containers, tree limbs, yard wastes or other solid waste, cannot be put there until the regularly scheduled collection day.

Bundle rules are in § 18-2(e). Tree limbs less than four inches in diameter and brush that are not placed in containers must be securely tied in bundles not larger than forty-eight inches long and eighteen inches in diameter. The weight of any individual bundle cannot exceed seventy-five pounds. Yard wastes put in containers fall under § 18-2(f): the container must be built and maintained to prevent the dispersal of wastes onto the premises served, onto adjacent premises or onto adjacent public rights-of-way, and the container and contents cannot exceed seventy-five pounds.

Residential containers have their own specification in § 18-2(c): not more than thirty-five gallons nor less than ten gallons in nominal capacity, leakproof, waterproof, fitted with a fly-tight lid and handles or other lifting devices, with the container and contents under seventy-five pounds. Section 18-2(g) says containers that are not approved will be collected and disposed of together with their contents. Section 18-3(E) requires collection vehicles to be maintained and operated to prevent spillage, and § 18-6(2) makes it unlawful to interfere with collection equipment or with collectors in the lawful performance of their duties. Roll cart set-out hours are separate, in § 18-5(12).