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.