Moonshot’s Home Composting Program

Helping Houston residents turn
food waste into compost

Many homeowners and homebuyers today are interested in ways to make their houses more sustainable and eco-friendly. For all the information and help available about solar panels and energy-efficient appliances, very few are paying attention to the amount of waste their homes are producing that ends up in rapidly filling landfills.

That’s where we come in.

Moonshot makes home composting in Houston clean and easy. Select the service below that’s right for you.

Pick Your Home Composting Service

Join the Mooniverse!

See How Much Your Fellow Houstonians Are Composting

Explore the map to see the businesses and residents near you who are taking their Moonshot and helping keep thousands of pounds of compostables out of landfills.

What to Compost?

Acceptable material varies slightly depending on whether you’re doing pickup or drop-off, but generally speaking we can accept all kinds of produce as well as coffee waste, bread, table scraps, pasta, egg shells, and more.

Track Your Contributions on the Diversion Dashboard

We make it simple to view the environmental benefits your donations are making with our Diversion Dashboard tool. You’ll find stats such as pounds of waste diverted from landfills and pounds of CO2 saved by composting that waste. You can also get data on your larger community’s achievements, as well.

What Happens to Your Food Waste?

Call us nerds, but 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 either commercial composting facilities or community gardens.

Group of people planting vegetables at community garden

Refer Your Friends and Get Rewarded

Our Referral Rewards program is our way to make sure you are paying the lowest amount possible for our residential pickup service. You earn a $5 credit for every new residential pickup subscriber you refer.

Home Composting FAQs

What bins do you provide?
We offer airtight, 4-gallon buckets for holding and transporting food waste. We also offer ventilated kitchen caddies. Both of these containers are free when you sign up.

What happens to the food waste you collect?
We take everything we collect to a compost facility, where the food waste is mixed with vegetative waste to become compost.

Can I earn my compostables back in compost?
Yes, all of our plans make it possible to get rewarded for your collections with two compost claims for your own use per year.

All your questions answered – more residential composting FAQs.