K-12 school food waste composting across Texas.
Children are the future, and Moonshot Compost is working with schools across Texas to help make it a brighter one.
We collect food waste from both public and private elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, and K-12 education centers in Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, and Waco.
Sign up for one of our simple, flexible plans and join our mission to make K-12 education more sustainable.
See live data for the schools we serve, powered by our Diversion Dashboard
Divert your food waste in 3 easy steps.
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Set Aside Compostables
Put your food waste in a Moonshot Compost-provided container.
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We Collect Your Food Waste
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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.
Your personalized Diversion Dashboard makes is easy to track and share your food waste diversion achievements. These include monthly and overall stats on how many pounds of food waste you’ve diverted from landfills, the equivalent amount of emissions you’ve prevented, and more that you can use to show your students the impact they’re making.
See and share your diversion success stats.
Discover Advanced Reporting with Our Diversion Dashboard
The environmental aspect of composting may garner the most headlines, but there are also social and governance benefits to be gleaned, as well.
See how else composting can help your ESG efforts.
Making composting easy.
A clean container with each collection
Employee training to ensure your compost is uncontaminated
Simple list of what’s collectable.
See it here
K-12 education composting FAQs.
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For our commercial services 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 schools, colleges, and other educational institutions with large volumes of food waste 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.
All your questions answered – more commercial composting FAQs.
What happens to your food waste?
We can’t help it—we think the science of how spoiled food and leftovers break down to become a valuable commodity when given enough time and oxygen is really cool. Where does that happen, you ask?
After being picked up by a Moonshot crew, your food waste is slowly transformed into compost at commercial composting facilities, and from there it’s sent into your community to do its beneficial work.
Start turning your school’s food waste into compost!
Contact us today to get smarter with your food waste stream while giving back to your community.
