Compost services for grocery stores across Texas.
Moonshot Compost helps grocery teams across Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, and Waco redirect their food waste from landfill to compost through a system that is clean, simple, and measurable.
Our grocery composting programs are designed for the way stores actually operate: multiple departments, multiple shifts, high employee turnover, and food waste generated throughout the building.
With clean container swaps, bilingual training, and location-level diversion data, your team gets a composting program that fits into daily workflow without adding unnecessary complexity.
Food waste in grocery stores comes from produce, deli, bakery, butcher, floral, and prepared foods, often across multiple departments and shifts throughout the day. When that material goes to landfill, it breaks down without oxygen and produces methane. Composting redirects that same material into an aerobic process that turns food waste into a useful soil amendment instead.
The challenge for grocery operators is making that diversion process simple, consistent, and workable in real store environments. That is where the right composting system matters.
A composting service built for the way grocery stores operate.
Multiple food waste generation points
Grocery food waste is not created in one place. It comes from produce culls, deli prep, bakery waste, meat trim, expired items, and floral waste across the store. Moonshot helps map those generation points during onboarding so your program is designed around how waste actually moves through the building.
In-store container placement
Because Moonshot’s drums are cleaned off-site and swapped with washed containers at every pickup, many grocery customers place them inside the store near the points where waste is generated. That reduces unnecessary handling and makes it easier for staff to compost as part of the normal routine.
Cleaner, easier movement of heavy food waste
Food waste is heavy. Building large piles and moving them across the store creates extra work, mess, and more opportunities for contamination. Moonshot’s approach keeps material in smaller containers closer to where it is generated, then moves sealed drums to the loading dock for pickup.
Store-level diversion reporting
Every container is weighed at pickup, giving grocery operators verified, weight-based data instead of estimates. Moonshot’s diversion reporting helps teams track diversion by location, monitor trends, prepare for third-party ESG audits and municipal compliance reporting, and share measurable impact with internal and external stakeholders.
One standardized system for every location
Moonshot makes it easier to standardize sustainability across your grocery portfolio with consistent implementation, centralized billing, and verified reporting across every location. Corporate teams get a clearer view of overall diversion performance while reducing store-level inconsistencies and simplifying ESG and municipal compliance reporting.
Bilingual training for busy store teams
Grocery environments often have multiple shifts and high turnover. Moonshot provides English and Spanish training, laminated signage, and retraining as needed so new and existing staff can follow the program with confidence. The goal is to make composting easy to understand and easy to repeat.
Simple contamination rules
Moonshot keeps sorting simple: If it grows, it goes. That makes training easier than more complicated diversion systems and helps grocery teams avoid confusion across departments. For stores coming from depackager programs, Moonshot also trains staff to stop putting packaged food into the compost stream.
Standardizing sustainability across your entire portfolio.
Corporate sustainability and operations leaders need more than store-level updates; they require a high-level view of regional and national performance. Moonshot’s infrastructure is built for the complexity of multi-site management, allowing you to oversee 30+ stores as easily as one.
Aggregated portfolio analytics
Our Diversion Dashboard provides a "single source of truth." View total tonnage, carbon offsets, and diversion rates for your entire fleet in one view, or drill down into individual store performance to identify top-performers and areas for improvement.
Uniform operational standards
We eliminate "rogue" store-by-store practices. By implementing a standardized 8-week rollout framework, we ensure that every location follows the same bilingual training, uses the same clean-swap drum system, and adheres to the same contamination protocols.
Centralized compliance & billing
Simplify administrative overhead with centralized invoicing and verified, weight-based data that is ready for corporate ESG audits and municipal reporting (e.g. The Austin Universal Recycling Ordinance).
Divert your food waste in 3 easy steps.
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Set aside compostables
Place food waste in your Moonshot-provided container at the point where it is generated.
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We collect your food waste
We pick it up on the agreed schedule and replace full drums with clean, pre-washed containers.
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We report your impact
Each container is weighed at pickup so you can track how much food waste your store is diverting over time.
Proudly serving the following grocery brands
From the Gulf to the Hill Country, markets across Texas have partnered with Moonshot to divert waste from landfills. Seeing how much they’ve accomplished with their collection plan is as easy as clicking on their name below, thanks to our proprietary Diversion Dashboard data.
How Monshot helped a national grocer standardize diversion across 30+ stores.
A leading national grocer partnered with Moonshot to turn inconsistent store-by-store waste practices into a unified food waste diversion program across 30+ DFW locations.
Moonshot helped standardize operations with bilingual staff training, clean container swaps, and store-level weight tracking, giving the customer verified data for ESG reporting and a simpler system teams could actually follow.
The result: a full rollout in just 8 weeks.
Moonshot’s reporting gives grocery teams a simple way to see pounds diverted, track trends, and support sustainability reporting with verified, weight-based data collected at pickup that can also be used for third-party ESG audits and municipal compliance reporting.
Share how much waste you’re diverting.
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 grocery composting clean and easy.
A clean container with every pickup through our clean swap system
Bilingual training and signage to support multiple departments and shifts
A simple rule staff can remember: If it grows, it goes
Store-level data that helps teams measure progress and adjust service over time
What happens to your food waste?
Moonshot ensures 100% of your organic material is processed at TCEQ-permitted facilities, giving grocery teams a fully transparent and compliant chain of custody from pickup through processing. At the facility, food waste breaks down aerobically and becomes compost that can support healthier soils, improved water retention, and other beneficial downstream uses in the community and landscape systems.
Grocery composting FAQs.
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We typically use 55-gallon drums, though container selection is part of our onboarding process.
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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.
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Meat, fruit, veggies, grains, and more are all acceptable. See the full list of compostables here.
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We collect from grocery stores in Austin, Dallas, Forth Worth, Houston, and Waco. Our territory is always expanding, so check back often to see if we’re in your area.
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While your BOH staff may have composted before, Moonshot’s training focuses on increasing participation and ensuring the stream stays 100% plastic-free.
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Moonshot’s focus is on pure organic diversion to avoid microplastic contamination. We work with you to separate packaging at the source, protecting the integrity of the final soil product.
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The Dashboard is public-facing. You can share your exact diversion impact — in lbs, trees, and CO₂ — with your customers to show you are walking the walk.
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Absolutely. We provide weight-based, verified data ready for national audits and annual impact disclosures.
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Single-site deployment can go from evaluation to full launch in as little as one week. Multi-site rollouts follow an 8-week framework proven across 30+ Texas locations.
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Yes. Moonshot's program accommodates phased rollouts, with each phase tracked independently in the Diversion Dashboard.
Turn grocery food waste into measurable impact.
Connect with Moonshot to create a composting program that helps your team reduce landfill waste, simplify operations, and track diversion by location.
