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Higher education news of the day:

On the campus of Indiana State a new program is turning food into fertilizer.  Videographer Mika Brown had the chance to show us how the process works.

Frank Mitchell is the Lincoln Quad Dining Unit Manager.  He says the unit had an old dish washing machine and the university agreed to replace it.  He says it does a lot of things differently. All of our scraps from the kitchen or things left on the tray gets dumped in a trough.  Then it's washed into a system that grinds it up and removes most of the moisture from it.  It shrinks it down and when it ends up it's fertilizer for the plants all over campus.

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