The Company, Description of Business, and Future Liquidity Needs

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2015

Accounting Policies [Abstract]

The Company, Description of Business, and Liquidity

1. The Company, Description of Business, and Liquidity

The accompanying consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Quest Resource Holding Corporation (“QRHC”) and its subsidiaries, Earth911, Inc. (“Earth911”), Quest Resource Management Group, LLC (“Quest”), Landfill Diversion Innovations, LLC, and Youchange, Inc. (“YouChange”) (collectively, “we,” “us,” or “our company”).

Operations

Quest provides businesses with one-stop management programs to reuse, recycle, and dispose of a wide variety of waste streams and recyclables generated by their businesses.  Our comprehensive reuse, recycling, and proper disposal management programs are designed to enable regional and national customers to have a single point of contact for managing a variety of waste streams and recyclables.  Earth911 also operates environmentally based social media and online data platforms that contain information and instructions necessary to empower consumers and consumer product companies to recycle or properly dispose of household products and materials.  Our directory of local recycling and proper disposal options empowers consumers directly and enables consumer product companies to empower their customers by giving them the guidance necessary for the proper recycling or disposal of a wide range of household products and materials, including the “why, where, and how” of recycling.  Quest generates substantially all of our revenues, and two of Quest’s customers accounted for 60% and 73% of revenue for the years ended December 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively.  Our principal offices are located in The Colony, Texas.

Liquidity

As of December 31, 2015 and 2014, our working capital balance was $2,059,248 and $1,316,319, respectively.