Our main service is residential food waste pick-up and recycling.
We help you reduce landfill waste, recycle food waste conveniently and affordably, and contribute to a more sustainable environment.
Yes, we also offer green waste pick-up, pumpkin pick-up, Christmas tree pick-up, and sell compost bags.
We pride ourselves on affordable pricing, outstanding customer service, and direct access to business owners. We're also an active part of the community.
We mainly operate in Fort Bend County, but also extend our services to Katy, Houston, and Sugar Land.
A curbside composting service can recycle food scraps through a curbside collection instead of at home. Reusing as many resources as possible is essential, so composting food scraps like meat, bones, eggshells, shellfish, and other food is an integral part of improving the world around us. It is also important to keep the food local, have it composted in an area close to home, and return it to those who need it on our site.
Yes, we do compost your food waste. All the food waste is collected with other compostable items and delivered to our composting partners. They mix and rotate the food waste to create a quality compost product available in local retail centers.
No, please don’t! We can provide compostable bags to collect your food waste. Plastic does not compost. We want to keep the compost a very high quality, so we ask that you keep as many contaminants out of the food as possible. For a shortlist of contaminates, visit our sign-up page to view a list of items that can be composted and what to keep out.
Anything that cannot be composted is considered a contaminant. Produce stickers, plastics, glass, and other items found on our sign-up page don’t break down for hundreds, or millions of years, and, therefore, cannot be included in your compost bucket. We ask that you help us keep the compost a high quality by ensuring these items aren’t put into the compost bucket.
We offer each subscriber one bag of finished compost every four stops after their first month of service. These can be requested through your account portal. If you would like additional bags of compost, subscribers can purchase bags from us at a discounted rate. If you’re not subscribed to our pick-up service, we can sell them at the total retail price plus delivery; please get in touch with us if interested.
Most of our compost service customers keep buckets in their garage, patio, or sink. We can also provide an inside collection container that can be held on the counter or under the sink.
Be sure to put the bucket somewhere visible to our drivers on pick-up day. This can be on your patio, on the sidewalk, or driveway. If you can’t leave it somewhere visible, please coordinate with us to arrange a location where we can access it. We are glad to work out an arrangement for both parties.
In the past, some people have said their buckets were picked up by the garbage trucks. If your compost pick-up service is on the same day as your community’s trash day, we recommend not putting it on the street, or next to your garbage bins. We would hate for you to collect the food waste and have it still end up in the landfill.
That’s okay. It’s still important to keep this waste out of the landfills and put it back into the soil. The biggest benefit to a curbside composting service is completing the food cycle, so that waste is not wasted, but rather recycled and put back to work. If you don’t want to collect compost for your personal use, we also work with local farmers to provide compost to their soil. This helps reduce their costs and supports our local farmers.
Yes, we have several customers that live in apartment complexes. We can work with you and/or your complex to make sure this works for all. We also have the option to service the whole complex, so be sure to talk to your management about why they should use a composting service. Let them know we would love to chat about this option.
Great! Our goal is to get as many people to compost as possible. If you’re composting in your backyard and have questions, we would be glad to help. Take a look at the list of items we compost and you might find some things that you won’t want to compost in your backyard. That is why a composting service like Curb Compost is helpful; we can compost much more than would be advised in your backyard.
Yes, you can add a second bucket to your service for $5 per month. If you need a one-time bucket, you can pick one up at the farmers market for $5, or let us know a few days in advance and we can drop off a second bucket at your house for $5.