Food scraps constitute almost 20% of the New York’s residential waste stream, ending up in landfills and producing methane gas, according to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
Now, Buffalo residents can take their crumbs and leftover morsels and “Scrap It! Curbside,” a residential food scrap collection pilot program that Mayor Byron W. Brown and Buffalo’s Farmer Pirates Compost are launching.
Buffalo’s residential food scraps recycling program – Scrap It! – starts up again Sunday and runs through Sept. 30. City residents can drop off discarded edibles for free at the following locations: South Buffalo Farmers Market; Cazenovia Park @ Casino; Sundays 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tops Markets; 1275 Jefferson Ave.; Mondays 4 to 6 p.m. Broadway Market; 999
On Friday at the city’s Engineering Garage on Seneca Street, Nathan Marton, the city’s commissioner of Public Works, announced the start of the delivery of brown totes to 2,000 residents who are participating in the pilot.
“Anything that we can do to reduce waste that’s going into our landfills is certainly very important,” he said.
As part of the program, the city will provide about 220 participating households from each of the city’s nine council districts with the totes. The…
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