Compost Service in Houston
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OnFarmCompost is a Houston-area compost service for businesses. We provide 55-gallon gasket-sealed drums placed outside by your dumpster, exchange and weigh them weekly, and sheet-compost the food waste directly on local farms. Routes cover Harris County and Fort Bend County. $10 per barrel, free waste audit, 1-week free trial — call 713-822-3398.
A Houston compost service built for businesses
OnFarmCompost is a compost service for businesses across Harris County and Fort Bend County. We handle weekly food-waste pickup for restaurants, offices, and food producers, and the material goes straight to local farms, where it’s sheet-composted on the land it will feed.
How the service works
Businesses get 55-gallon food-grade drums with gasket-sealed lids, placed outside near the dumpster. Your kitchen crew keeps its own lined garbage can inside, ties the liner like a normal trash bag, and carries it to the drum instead of the dumpster. On your weekly route day, we haul the full drums, weigh them, and leave clean ones — a filled drum runs 100 to 200 pounds, so that’s our job.
Reporting
Commercial accounts get a monthly ESG-ready diversion report covering tonnage, methane avoided, and contamination rate — built from the actual weights of your drums.
What we accept
- All food scraps: fruit, vegetables, meat, bones, dairy, plate scrapings
- Coffee grounds and eggshells
- Small amounts of pan grease
We keep out fryer oil (rendering services already collect it), paper of any kind including napkins and coffee filters, and plastics of any kind — including anything labeled “compostable.”
Where the compost goes
Your food waste goes directly to local farms and is sheet-composted on the land it will feed. The finished compost legally stays on those farms — it isn’t bagged, resold, or returned. That’s the point: no compost yard, no heavy-equipment overhead, just waste becoming farmland soil.
Service area and pricing
We serve Harris County and Fort Bend County. $10 per barrel, no contract — service is scoped to your drum count after a free waste audit and a 1-week free trial.
Drums built for Houston weather
Open bins smell and draw pests, especially in Houston’s heat and humidity. Our gasket-sealed drums are built for that reality — the lids lock in odor and keep out pests, and weekly exchange means nothing sits long enough to become a problem.
For farmers too
We’re a dual-client operation. If you’re a farmer or landowner in the area, we deliver food waste and manure, consult on compost and soil, or run full-service composting on your property from start to finish. Sheet composting is a springboard into regenerative farming, and it costs less than buying from a compost yard.
Start your service
Call 713-822-3398 or contact us. We’ll run a free waste audit, confirm your route day, and set up your trial week.
Related Questions
Do you serve homes or businesses?
Businesses only — restaurants, offices, food producers, coffee shops, and cafeterias. We also work with farmers who want compost made on their own land.
How often is pickup?
Weekly, on a set schedule. We exchange drums — haul the full ones, weigh them, and leave clean ones. We confirm your route day when you sign up.
What does it cost?
$10 per barrel, no contract. We start with a free waste audit and a 1-week free trial, then scope drum count to your volume.