Houston Composting Q&A

Common questions about food waste pickup and composting for businesses across Harris, Fort Bend, and Montgomery County, TX.

Commercial food-waste composting in Harris, Fort Bend, and Montgomery County runs on a private weekly pickup, because neither county offers municipal composting for businesses. OnFarmCompost places 55-gallon, gasket-sealed drums outside your building, next to the dumpster, never inside. Your staff keeps its own lined can and ties off bags the normal way; the drum is where those bags go instead of the dumpster. Every week we swap full drums for clean ones and weigh what comes out, so the diversion numbers in your monthly report are measured, not estimated. The material never goes to a landfill or a central composting facility. It is sheet-composted directly on local partner farms, and the finished compost stays on that land. This service is built for produce markets, supermarkets, grocers, produce operations, and food producers in Harris, Fort Bend, and Montgomery County, at $10 per barrel with no contract. Every account starts with a free waste audit, then a 1-week free trial, so you see real weights before committing to anything. The questions below cover getting started, how service differs by business type, and exactly what goes in the drum.