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IRVINE, CA - OCTOBER 29: UCI students line up for dinner at UCI's Mesa Commons. UCI dinning halls use environmentally friendly practices by composting their waste food which is then used to produce electricity. ///ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: uc.sludge.1118 Ð 10/29/13 Ð LEONARD ORTIZ, ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER Ð This is a look at UCI's food composting practices, how workers dispose of food waste and how students engage in food-saving, environmentally friendly practices in the dining halls at UCI. UCI takes all food waste to a facility in Orange that turns it into a sludge used to generate electricity. Photographed at Mesa Commons. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz/Digital First Media/Orange County Register via Getty Images)