Food Waste Collection

Overview

RR first began collecting food scraps for composting via our original Blue Bucket Program in 2011. Back then, we used an old Ford Ranger to collect 5-gallon buckets from a handful of pioneering residents in the Little Forest Hills neighborhood of East Dallas.

Today, we're the leading collector of post-consumer food waste in North Texas, diverting more than 150 tons per month from local landfills on behalf of Dallas-Fort Worth's most environmentally-responsible businesses and organizations, including many of DFW's leading venues, hotels, restaurants, campuses, offices, and small businesses.

Capabilities & Features

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  • Free optional evaluation & assessment to help identify your business' composting and logistical needs

  • Highly customizable service: build your program (or let us help you build it!) by selecting the containers, materials, and schedule that work best for your business:

  • Identify the type(s) of food waste you'd like to compost

  • Pick the container(s) you'd like us to collect

  • Our standard collection unit for food waste is the 65-gallon container, but other options are available

  • Choose from weekly, twice per week, three times per week, or daily pick up schedules; or arrange for periodic "one-time" pick ups

  • Due to odors (especially in the Texas summer!), RR does not offer regular food waste pick ups less than once per week

  • On-site, on-demand educational orientations and tours of our Center to help keep your staff engaged and motivated to recycle & compost

  • Yearly audit reports to detail the metrics vital to your program: dates, weights, contamination rates, carbon savings, and more

  • The best contracts in the business

  • Flexibility: schedule extra pick ups and/or change the details of your program with just a simple call or email

Extras (Additional fees may apply)

  • Arrange for periodic one-time pick ups of materials like e-waste, batteries, and light bulbs as desired; or organize seasonal drives (e.g. e-waste drives) at your workplace

  • Colorful in-house signage to keep your program visible, vibrant, and effective

  • Additional in-house containers to help make your program more convenient and efficient

Wait a Minute... You Can Recycle Food?

Recycling organic material may (understandably!) still be an odd concept to a lot of folks, but it's an increasingly common practice here in North Texas, to the point that food products now constitute RR's single largest incoming stream--surpassing even the paper, plastic, and cardboard goods we collect and receive from local businesses each month.

For a more in-depth look at how composting works, click here.

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 Who Can Compost?

In a word, everyone! If your business or household regularly disposes of food, the chances are pretty good we can compost it. RR's current food waste collection clientele includes:

  • Entertainment venues

  • Corporate campuses

  • Hotels

  • Restaurants & bars

  • Juice bars & coffee shops

  • Food processors & distributors

  • Schools

  • Offices

  • Small businesses

  • and more!

 What We Accept

If you can eat it, there's a good chance we can compost it!
Acceptable items in our collection program include:

 

How Collection Works

While we'll never forget (or stop being grateful for!) our old Ford Ranger, today we use a specially-designed truck to perform most of our food waste collections. During Collection Day (typically twice per week, but sometimes more or less depending on Clients' preferences), our drivers empty all designated containers (usually 65-gallon roll-out carts for businesses and 5-gal buckets for residences) into the truck and then wash the empty containers using an on-board industrial pressure washer. Once the food is in our possession, we control it for quality and deliver it to local permitted composting operations, where it's mixed with locally-obtained carbon sources to create high-quality, certified-Organic compost. That compost is then marketed to local wholesalers and retailers, ultimately making its way back to into our homes to help us grow new life in North Texas.

 

For more information about our Commercial Food Waste services, please call us at (214) 566-3025 or leave us a message here.