Scrap It! Buffalo

FREE residential composting program in Buffalo, NY

Scrap It! is a joint effort between the City of Buffalo and Farmer Pirates to offer free (!!) composting services to all City residents. Keep reading to learn about your options and register…

What programs are available to me?

(Don’t worry, it’s all free!)

SCRAP IT! CURBSIDE

Live in a building with 4 or fewer units? Let us come to you!

Terra pointing at Scrap It! Curbside Tote
Learn More about curbside service

SCRAP IT! drop off

Live in a building with 5 or more units or want the flexibility of drop off?

Learn More about drop off

Scrap it! Curbside

  • Pre-Register

    Fill out this quick form so we can get your household on the route!

    Sign Up
  • A veggie scraps icon

    Get started

    We will email you with all the information you need to get started and a brown tote will be delivered to your doorstep.

    What can I compost?
  • Farmer Pirates compost truck icon

    Collect, Rinse, Repeat!

    Collect your food scraps in the brown tote and put it out on garbage day each week. We’ll collect the material and bring it to our site for composting! That’s all there is to it :)

    Questions? Check the FAQs

This project has been funded in part by the Climate Smart Communities Grant Program, Title 15 of the Environmental Protection Fund through the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.

Scrap it! Drop off

  • sign up!

    Fill out our quick sign up form, choosing your primary drop off location (see options on map below), and we’ll send along your welcome email.

    Sign Up
  • Farmer Pirates compost truck icon

    Ready, set...

    In the welcome email, learn about your selected drop off location, lock code, and how to collect at home.

    What can I compost?
  • A veggie scraps icon

    Go! Drop off any time

    Head to your drop off location and empty your container whenever needed. We’ll do the rest.

    questions? check the faqs

Scrap It! Drop Off locations:

  1. Corner of Elmwood Ave & St. James Pl

  2. Massachusetts Avenue Project (387 Massachusetts Ave)

  3. Eugene V. Debs Hall (483 Peckham St)

  4. Dog Ears Bookstore (688 Abbott Rd)

Please note: All drop off totes are closed with a combination lock. Sign up to receive the code and begin composting!

FAQS

Scrap It! Buffalo

Participant Testimonials

  • Farmer Pirates Compost is great! They pick up at our house on our normal trash day and provide a new liner each week. They make it easy for our busy family to compost so it’s a win win all around!

    -Rachel R.

  • Our family has LOVED the City Scrap It! Curbside program with Farmer Pirates. It is a simple process - we use a smaller counter container for kitchen scraps and then dump it into the brown tote when it's full. We have been amazed at how much we generate each week. It has turned into a family competition of how much we can compost opposed to trash. The best is hearing our teenagers say, "Wait that can be composted!"

    -Jenn S.

  • Composting with Farmer Pirates has made me realize just how much food waste I had been putting in the trash. It made me rethink how I buy and use my fresh foods and I am very grateful that my fresh food scraps and some of the containers can be used to make compost to help gardeners and food growers....a full circle of use and reuse!

    -Jeanne S.

  • Using the brown tote has taken the smell out of my garbage tote, helped me organize my refuse and made me feel environmental friendly. Plus, knowing the compost they return to me is clean and healthy has encouraged me to expand my garden.

    -Joseph A.

  • Although we try really hard to eliminate food waste it feels inevitable but composting helps take away the guilt. Our garbage has become so light and honestly with no food in it we can go almost a month without changing it because there is nothing gross in there and there is a lot less stuff. I have gotten to the point where composting just feels so normal that if we are out and about at a community event and eat a banana I panic that I have a banana peel and no compost bin to put it in. Turning food scraps into useful compost feels like magic and Farmer Pirates makes it SO EASY! I want to shout it from the roof tops that everyone needs to try it!

    -Laura S.