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

Section 50.031 requires the governing body to maintain a recovered material processing facility for the specific purpose of accepting recyclable materials from the public and preparing them for shipment to a buyer, and it names that facility the Oldham County Recycling Center. The rule that governs what residents may bring is narrow: only materials specifically indicated on the Center's own signage may be dropped off there. The ordinance does not leave that as a suggestion; it states directly that materials other than those indicated as accepted are considered illegally dumped, tying the Recycling Center's posted list to the county's separate open-dumping and scavenging prohibitions in §§ 50.065 and 50.093 rather than treating an over-drop as a harmless mistake.

Because the accepted-materials list lives on the facility's signage and not in the text of the ordinance itself, residents need to check current signage at the Center before hauling non-curbside items there, since what is accepted can be narrower than a general expectation of what is recyclable. This Recycling Center drop-off option exists separately from the curbside recycling service under § 50.032, which runs only through the franchise contractor; the Center is the fallback for materials or generators that curbside service does not reach.