Grocers and produce operations
Culls and trim that come off the floor as one clean, single-material stream, not sorted out of mixed trash.
Houston commercial food waste pickup
Get food waste out of your dumpster. Put it back into Texas soil.
We place gasket-sealed drums by your dumpster, swap and weigh them weekly, and compost the food waste on local farms. Start with a free 1-week audit. No contract.
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- Produce culls by the drum
- Weekly clean drum swap
- Measured diversion report
- Service area
- Harris + Fort Bend
- Pickup
- Weekly drum swap
- Ongoing price
- $10 per barrel
- Start
- Free audit + trial
The operational fix
One new destination for the bag. Not a new kitchen workflow.
Your staff keeps using a lined food-waste can. At the end of the run, the tied bag goes into our sealed drum instead of the dumpster. We handle the outside work.
See the full pickup process- 01
We place sealed drums outside
55-gallon food-grade drums sit by your dumpster or another approved exterior spot.
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Your crew drops tied food-waste bags in
The kitchen keeps using a lined can. The only change is where the tied bag goes at the end of the run.
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We swap, weigh, and report weekly
Full drums leave, clean drums stay, and your monthly diversion report uses measured weights instead of estimates.
Proof from the route
Picked up here. Composted here.
The same drums shown at the business are emptied and composted on Texas farmland. Real operation photos give buyers and search engines something more useful than decorative leaves.
Built for commercial generators
A practical fit when food is a meaningful part of the trash.
The free audit answers the only volume question that matters: how many measured drums does your location actually produce?
One condition applies to all of it: Organic material must arrive source-separated or depackaged. Streams that arrive mixed with packaging or general trash are not accepted.
Offices and cafeterias
A cleaner waste station, predictable weekly service, and numbers ready for internal sustainability reporting.
Food producers
Recurring organic byproducts that need a local outlet instead of more wet weight in the dumpster.
Dumpster only vs measured diversion
Know what happened after the bag left the kitchen.
Your general trash service still handles trash. OnFarmCompost removes the food-heavy stream, isolates its weight, and gives it a useful destination.
| Factor | Dumpster only | OnFarmCompost |
|---|---|---|
| Containment | Mixed into open trash | Gasket-sealed 55-gallon drum |
| Food-waste weight | Not isolated by location | Every drum weighed at pickup |
| Destination | Landfill | Composted on local farms |
| Reporting | Hauling invoice | Monthly measured diversion report |
Evidence note: the EPA identifies food as roughly 24% of municipal solid waste sent to U.S. landfills and describes composting as a local, aerobic form of organics recycling. Read the EPA composting overview and landfilled food waste methane research.
Plain pricing
$10 per barrel after the free trial.
We do not guess your drum count in a sales call. The free 1-week audit measures your actual food-waste volume first.
- Waste audit
- Free for one week
- Service trial
- Free for one week if route fit is confirmed
- Ongoing pickup
- $10 per barrel
- Commitment
- No contract
- Cadence
- Weekly clean drum swap
- Reporting
- Measured monthly diversion summary
What goes in
Produce, by the drum, straight to a farm.
The material goes onto working farmland rather than into a permitted facility, and that is what keeps the accepted list vegetative. For a grocery or a produce market, that list is most of what the back room throws away anyway.
- Produce culls, trim, and overripe or unsold fruit and vegetables
- Vegetative food material kept source-separated from packaging
- Bulk dry goods such as flour, grain, and expired shelf-stable produce, depackaged
- Clean wood chips and untreated woody material
- Coffee grounds
Keep these out
Animal material and packaging stay separate.
- Meat, bones, and dairy: not accepted. The farms receiving this material stay in Texas's exempt tier because the feedstock is vegetative, and animal material would change that for every site in the network.
- Plate scrapings: anything that has been to a table comes back mixed, so back-of-house waste does not qualify.
- Paper and plastic: every kind, including products labeled compostable.
- Grease and fryer oil: keep using the separate collection stream already built for it.
For farmers and landowners
Need feedstock, soil consulting, or full-service sheet composting?
The commercial pickup route creates the material. Our farm services put it to work where the soil needs it.
Common questions
What operators ask first.
What types of waste do you accept?
Vegetative food waste: produce culls, trim, and overripe or unsold fruit and vegetables, coffee grounds, eggshells, and depackaged bulk dry goods such as flour and grain. Composting happens on working farms rather than at a permitted facility, and a vegetative feedstock is what lets those farms take material without changing their regulatory footing. Meat, bones, dairy, post-service plate scrapings, grease, paper, plastics, and compostable bioplastics stay out of the drums.
How much does commercial compost pickup cost?
Ongoing service is $10 per barrel. We start with a free 1-week waste audit to measure your volume, then offer a 1-week free service trial if the route is a fit. There is no contract.
How often are the drums picked up?
Weekly. We remove the full gasket-sealed drums, weigh them, and leave clean replacements. Your team never washes a drum.
Where does the food waste go?
It goes directly to local partner farms, where it is composted on the land and used to build Texas soil. It is not bagged and resold at retail.
What areas do you serve?
OnFarmCompost serves commercial customers in Harris County, Fort Bend County, and Montgomery County, Texas. The free audit confirms whether your address fits the current weekly route.
More edge cases live in the commercial composting FAQ.
Start with measurement
Book the free 1-week waste audit.
We drop off sealed drums, pick them up one week later, weigh the material, and give you a one-page report. You keep the numbers even if you never become a customer.
- ✓ Exact food-waste poundage
- ✓ Recommended weekly drum count
- ✓ Diversion and route-fit summary
- ✓ No obligation and no contract
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Tell Scotty where the waste is.
A business name, ZIP code, and rough volume are enough to start.
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