Food waste composting for multi-family properties across Texas.
Moonshot Compost helps multi-family property managers, ownership groups, and residential communities across Austin, Dallas–Fort Worth, Houston, and Waco divert food waste from landfill through a system that is clean, simple, and measurable.
Our multi-family programs help properties offer a sustainability amenity residents value, reduce pressure on traditional waste systems, and track diversion with verified, weight-based reporting.
Food waste in multi-family communities comes from everyday resident activity across hundreds of units. Even when residents want to dispose of food more responsibly, that material often ends up in the trash, where it breaks down in landfill without oxygen and produces methane.
For property managers, the challenge is not just giving residents a composting option. It is creating a system that is easy to use, works within the realities of the property, and does not create new issues around contamination, access, or waste handling.
Composting redirects that food waste into an aerobic process that turns it into a useful soil amendment instead. For multi-family properties, that creates a cleaner, more practical way to support resident participation, reduce pressure on traditional waste systems, and track diversion with verified data.
A composting service built for the realities of multi-family property management.
Resident participation
A multi-family composting program only works if residents can use it easily and consistently. Moonshot helps properties set up a system that is straightforward to understand, simple to access, and easier to support with clear signage and communication materials.
Compactor pressure
Heavy food waste adds weight quickly to traditional trash systems. Moonshot helps divert that wet organic material into a separate compost stream, which can reduce pressure on compactors and support cleaner, more efficient waste operations.
Property-specific logistics
Every property has its own layout, access points, waste flow, and operational constraints. Moonshot helps design a collection setup that fits your site, supports smoother handling, and makes food waste easier to manage for both residents and property teams.
Portfolio-level visibility
For ownership groups and operators managing more than one property, Moonshot can support reporting across individual communities and broader portfolios. That gives teams better visibility into diversion performance over time and makes reporting easier to manage.
Easier operational adoption
A composting program should fit into existing property operations without creating unnecessary complexity. Moonshot helps teams implement the program with practical guidance on container placement, collection flow, signage, and resident participation.
Cleaner storage and handling
Moonshot containers come with sealed lids to help reduce odors and pests. At every pickup, full containers are removed and replaced with clean, washed containers, helping properties maintain a cleaner food waste system on-site.
Support for local compliance needs
In some markets, multi-family properties may need to meet local diversion or composting requirements. Moonshot helps customers understand those requirements where they apply and build a program that supports compliant food waste handling.
Startup planning
Every program starts with a conversation about your property, waste volume, and site logistics. From there, Moonshot helps map out a program that fits your needs and can be refined over time as real diversion data comes in.
A multi-family composting plan built for your property.
Many residents are looking for practical sustainability amenities where they live. Moonshot helps property managers build a food waste diversion program that fits the realities of a multi-family property while giving residents an easier way to participate.
Our programs are designed to support cleaner waste operations, reduce pressure on traditional waste systems, and provide verified diversion data you can track over time.
What’s included
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A Diversion Dashboard for the full property
Optional add-ons
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55-gallon drums
Routine servicing and clean drum swaps
Monthly diversion reporting
Compostable bags
Counter caddies
4-gallon in-unit bins
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Divert your property’s food waste in 3 easy steps.
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Set aside compostables
Residents place food waste in the designated Moonshot collection container.
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We collect and swap containers
Moonshot picks up food waste on the agreed schedule and replaces full containers with clean, washed ones.
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Track your diversion impact
Each container is weighed at pickup so property managers can track pounds diverted and carbon equivalencies through the Diversion Dashboard.
Proudly serving the following property brands
Property managers in Texas’ biggest cities are giving their tenants access to composting by partnering with Moonshot. Thanks to our Diversion Dashboard, you can click on any property name below to see what they’ve been able to achieve by participating in our food waste diversion movement.
How Moonshot helped AMLI Residential bring food waste diversion across 9 Austin properties.
AMLI Residential, one of the preeminent multi-family companies in the nation, partnered with Moonshot to transform a municipal mandate into a high-performing sustainability asset across nine Austin locations. By replacing anonymous bulk hauling with Moonshot's traceable drum system, AMLI successfully diverted organic waste while maintaining an exceptionally low contamination rate across a high-turnover residential portfolio.
The result is a centralized, highly scalable program that provides investment-grade ESG data ready for corporate reporting.
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Moonshot’s reporting gives property managers and ownership teams a simple way to track pounds diverted, monitor trends, and document impact over time. Verified, weight-based data collected at pickup can support sustainability reporting, ESG audits, and municipal compliance reporting across a single property or a broader portfolio.
Share how much waste you’re diverting.
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 every pickup
Simple sorting rules that are easy to follow
See what you can compost.
What happens to your food waste?
After collection, your food waste is processed at TCEQ-permitted facilities, giving property managers a fully transparent and compliant chain of custody from pickup through processing. At the facility, food waste breaks down naturally in an oxygen-rich environment and becomes compost.
That means food waste from your property is actively redirected away from landfills and transformed into a powerful environmental asset. This material is processed into high-grade compost that restores biological health to Texas farmlands and serves as critical erosion control for infrastructure projects—acting as a vital biological shield to protect sensitive regional water systems like the Edwards Aquifer.
What can residents compost?
Moonshot accepts many common food scraps, including produce, bread, pasta, coffee grounds, eggshells, and more.
Our goal is to make composting easy for residents and easier for property teams to manage.
Multi-family composting FAQs.
Getting started
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Moonshot works with multi-family properties in Austin, Dallas–Fort Worth, Houston, and Waco. Our service area is always expanding, so check back often to see if we're in your area.
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We typically use 55-gallon drums, though container selection is part of our onboarding process.
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Container placement depends on the property's layout, waste flow, and resident access. Moonshot helps determine the best location for containers so the program is easy to use, easier to manage, and less likely to create contamination or access issues.
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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.
Reporting & compliance
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We provide a Diversion Dashboard with pound-for-pound, weekly-updated data broken down by individual property for seamless corporate sustainability reporting.
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Moonshot's weight-based reporting generates the verified diversion documentation properties need to demonstrate compliance during city audits.
Portfolio & property management
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Yes. Moonshot designs portfolio-level programs with individual property data and consolidated portfolio reporting.
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Yes. Diverting heavy organics directly reduces commercial landfill tipping fees and optimizes your primary compactor's hauling schedule.
Resident participation
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Meat, fruit, veggies, grains, and more are all acceptable. See the full list of compostables here.
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Moonshot helps support resident participation with clear signage and communication materials that make the program easier to understand and follow.
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We utilize weekly photo-audits and partner with on-site Community Experience Managers to provide targeted education, keeping contamination rates exceptionally low.
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Yes. Moonshot's clean drum swaps eliminate odors and pest risks common in urban multi-family environments.
Build a composting program that fits your multi-family property.
Talk with Moonshot about a food waste diversion program that supports resident participation, fits your property’s operations, and gives you verified data to track impact over time.
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