Composting in Houston
Answer
For Houston-area businesses, OnFarmCompost makes composting simple: we place 55-gallon gasket-sealed drums outside by your dumpster, exchange and weigh them weekly, and sheet-compost the food waste directly on local farms. Serving Harris County and Fort Bend County — $10 per barrel, free waste audit, 1-week free trial.
Composting in Houston, made simple
Composting in Houston doesn’t require your own bin or a pile that attracts pests. OnFarmCompost runs weekly pickup for businesses across Harris County and Fort Bend County, so your food waste becomes farm soil instead of landfill methane.
How it works for businesses
Restaurants, offices, food producers, coffee shops, and cafeterias get 55-gallon food-grade drums with gasket-sealed lids — important in Houston’s heat and humidity. The drum lives outside near your dumpster, never in the kitchen. Your 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.
Weekly exchange
Pickup is weekly, on a set route day. We haul the full drums, weigh them, and leave clean ones — a filled drum runs 100 to 200 pounds, so the lifting is our job. Commercial accounts get a monthly ESG-ready diversion report built from those weights.
What you can compost
- 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 it goes
Your food waste goes directly to local farms and is sheet-composted on the land it will feed. The finished compost stays on those farms — no bagging, no reselling, no compost yard in the middle. That’s how the loop stays local.
Service area
We serve Harris County and Fort Bend County. Send us your business address to confirm your route day.
Why compost instead of trashing it
When food scraps go to a landfill, they decompose without oxygen and release methane. Diverting them with OnFarmCompost turns the same material into soil on working farms in this region.
Drums that handle Houston weather
Houston heat and humidity make open bins a problem — they smell and draw pests. Gasket-sealed drums are built for that reality: the lids lock in odor and keep out pests, and the weekly exchange means nothing sits long enough to turn.
Get started
Call 713-822-3398 or contact us. Free waste audit, 1-week free trial, $10 per barrel, no contract.
Related Questions
Do I need my own compost bin or pile?
No. We provide 55-gallon food-grade drums with gasket-sealed lids, placed outside near your dumpster, and we handle the composting on local farms.
What can I put in?
All food scraps — fruit, vegetables, meat, bones, dairy, plate scrapings, coffee grounds, eggshells, and small amounts of pan grease. We exclude fryer oil, paper of any kind (napkins, towels, coffee filters), and all plastics, including items labeled compostable.
Which areas do you serve?
Harris County and Fort Bend County. Reach out with your business address to confirm availability.