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

Section 50.020 lists the collection practices the governing body treats as acceptable for routine pickup. Subsection (A) authorizes door-to-door household and curbside collection by route, the standard method used across the unincorporated county. Subsection (B) covers service of stationary storage containers, meaning larger fixed containers serviced in place rather than carts rolled to the curb. Subsection (D) requires at-the-door service for households of physically disabled people who are incapable of moving a collection cart to the curb themselves, so those residents are not required to use curbside carts to receive pickup.

Before any hauler can perform this pickup work, § 50.018 requires them to obtain an annual waste hauling permit from the county Coordinator and to submit a Form DEP 5033 each year; automated and manual collection vehicles are both acceptable under that section. Haulers are also responsible for the collection points themselves: any spillage or blowing litter caused by the collector's own actions or inaction during pickup must be cleaned up by the collector, while litter caused by a resident's improper storage is instead treated as a public nuisance under § 91.01.

Rental property owners have an added pickup duty of their own: § 50.017 requires them to provide collection service to their tenants, tying pickup access to the landlord rather than leaving it to individual renters to arrange.