Commercial Composting Services for Austin, TX

We are a licensed hauler for diverting food waste in Austin offering simple and flexible plans with next-level diversion reporting.

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Austin – the “keep-it-weird” capital of Texas – is a leader in pushing the state towards a zero-waste future, implementing programs like the Universal Recycling Ordinance (URO) to ensure that organic waste and recyclable materials stay out of landfills. That’s where Moonshot Compost can help.

With our commercial composting program, we make the process of collecting food waste sweet and simple, providing your company with the tools and training you and your employees need to help keep Austin green. Here’s some of what we have to offer:

Custom and flexible plans

Our aim is to fit your business with the right plan, tailored to your specific needs.

Month to month contracts

No need to get locked into a long contract that doesn’t meet your needs as your company grows and changes.

Clean containers, every time

We not only provide you with the drums you need for collecting food waste, we swap them out for clean ones at every collection.

A trained team

We take away the learning curve of food waste collection for you and your staff by providing training on composting as part of the onboarding process.

Reporting made easy

Our diversion board makes it easy to track and report the environmental impact your company is making through composting efforts.

Facilities We Serve

Restaurants

We’re working to make
Austin’s composting game as vibrant as its famous food scene by collecting eateries’ pre- and even post-consumer waste in some cases.

Offices

Turn your 9-5 spot into a
valuable source of soil
nutrients for your community.

Schools & Colleges

Our city’s 16 colleges can
make a huge impact on the
local environment by
partnering with us to
divert waste from cafeterias, dorms, and apartments.

Multifamily

We work with multifamily property managers to bring sustainable food waste disposal to apartments and condominiums throughout Texas.

Hospitals

Patients, healthcare workers,
and visitors produce huge
amounts of food waste at hospitals every year,
but we’re harnessing that
organic material for good.

And More…

We can partner with virtually
any location from which
large amounts of food are being
sent to landfills, including: Assisted Living Centers,
Daycares, Country Clubs, and Food Halls.

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.

Show Off How Much Waste You’re Diverting

Your waste diversion achievements are easy to track and share via your personalized Diversion Dashboard.

You’ll find monthly and overall 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.

See the Diversion Dashboard

Discover Advanced Reporting with Our Diversion Dashboard

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 think it’s really cool how spoiled food and leftovers can become a valuable commodity when given enough time and a place to relax. Where is that, you ask?

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

See How Your Trash Becomes Treasure

Commercial 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.
We take everything we collect to a compost facility, where the food waste is mixed with vegetative waste to become compost. Learn more about what happens to your food waste.

All your questions answered – more commercial composting FAQs.

“Moonshot has been a great partner by helping us reach our Net Zero goals...”

"For over two years, Moonshot has been a great partner to by by helping us reach our Net Zero goals in a very tangible way. We now compost 100% of the appropriate waste from the two restaurants on our Houston campus, diverting all of it from the landfill. At the same time, this program is helping our culinary team become more aware of how they can minimize all waste. The compost we receive from Moonshot is used in our community vegetable garden, the vegetables used in our kitchens, the waste composted, the compost used in our garden...”

Joe Abuso

Global Director of Food & Beverage, bp