Buffalo to sponsor food scrap recycling program this summer

Have any extra food that you're planning to throw away? The City of Buffalo wants it.

Mayor Byron Brown announced Wednesday that the city will sponsor a food scraps recycling pilot program from June 6 to July 25.

Scraps will be collected at the Massachusetts Avenue Project's farm stand, located at Massachusetts Avenue Park, between Brayton Street and Shields Avenue. 

"This is a safe, smart, and free way of disposing of food scraps that will be turned into valuable compost”, wrote Mayor Brown in a statement.

The city said all food scraps collected will be transported to the Buffalo River Compost. 

For more information -- including a list of accepted and unaccepted material -- please refer to the image accompanying this story.