Restaurant food waste composting across Texas

Moonshot collects food waste from coffee shops and restaurants in greater Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, and Waco

We offer simple, flexible plans with next-level diversion reporting, and guide you through every step of the process.

84% of unused food in American restaurants ends up in landfills. In fact, food waste is now the number one item in landfills. Of all that wasted food, 15% of it comes from restaurants. 

When it breaks down in landfills, food waste releases methane, one of the most harmful greenhouse gasses.

Composting is a simple and effective solution to this problem. 

By diverting food waste away from landfills, methane emissions are reduced, and compost - a nutrient rich resource - is created that can be added back to the soil. 

In addition to better environmental outcomes, composting also helps you comply with existing local regulations, demonstrate sustainability efforts to your customers and stakeholders, and give back to your local community.

A premium service to meet the challenges restaurants face

High volume of food waste

Restaurants create an enormous amount of food waste - estimated to be between 22 to 33 billion pounds annually. Large menus, buffet options, and unused produce are partially responsible. At Moonshot Compost, we can devise a custom composting program for you to handle large volumes of compostable pre-consumer (and sometimes post-consumer) food waste.

Assistance with operational changes

Beginning food waste collection will mean a change in your kitchen operations. Moonshot is ready to help you make this transition by providing training for your staff, advising you on best bin placement and pickup locations, and supplying you with clear signage regarding what items are compostable.


Check out our list of what to compost.

Helping meet regulatory compliance

Environmental regulations can vary from city to city. This can make things more complicated for restaurants with locations in multiple cities. We help guide you on food waste compliance, making sure your business meets local regulations.

Food safety and storage

A common concern for those who have never composted before is cleanliness and potential odor. Our Moonshot bins have airtight lids that minimize pests and odor, giving you and your staff one less thing to worry about. We can advise you on bin placement, pickup locations, and other best practices to help you maintain high food safety standards.

Start up consult

At the beginning of our service, we will consult with you to learn the scope of your desired composting program. We are TRUE AdvisorTM certified and can plan as robust a waste diversion program as you need.

Divert your food waste in 3 easy steps

1

Set Aside Compostables

Put your food waste in a Moonshot Compost-provided container. 

2

We Pick Up Your Food Waste

3

We pick it up according to the agreed schedule and swap it with a clean container.

We Report Your Impact

We calculate the pounds diverted from landfills and three carbon equivalences on your personalized dashboard.

Share how much waste you’re diverting

Your waste diversion achievements are easy to track and share via your personalized Diversion Dashboard. Here you’ll find monthly and total stats on how many pounds of waste you’ve diverted from landfills, the equivalent amount of emissions avoided, and more that you can use in your ESG reporting and sustainability marketing.

Discover Advanced Reporting with Our Diversion Dashboard

Although the environmental aspect of composting is the most readily identifiable, it also bears positive fruit within the social and governance elements.


See how else composting can help your ESG efforts.

Making composting easy

A clean bin with each collection

Employee training to ensure your compost is uncontaminated

Simple list of what’s collectable. 
See it here

What happens to your food waste?

We are pretty enamored with the natural composting process of how spoiled food and leftovers break down to become a valuable commodity when given enough time and a place to relax. Where is that, you ask?

Your food waste collections are transformed into compost at commercial composting facilities, after which it finds multiple practical applications.

Restaurant composting FAQs

  • For our commercial services we typically use 55-gallon drums, though container selection is part of our onboarding process.

  • As part of your onboarding, we consult with you to determine a pickup schedule that works for you. In most cases, we collect no more than twice per week.

  • Meat, fruit, veggies, grains, and more are all acceptable. See the full list of compostables here.


  • We collect from restaurants and food service establishments in Houston, Austin, Dallas and Waco and our territory is always expanding, so check back often to see if we’re in your area.

All your questions answered – more commercial composting FAQs.

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Start turning your food waste into compost!

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