This research team proposes to expand the Environment-Enhancing Energy (E2E) research program to campus application, to augment management of wet biowaste, like food waste produced through the dining halls. More than 34 million tons of food waste was generated in the US in 2010 (EPA, 2010).  According to Kelly Boeger, the Menu Management Dietician at the University of Illinois, 344,559 pounds of food goes unused by the cafeterias on campus which was worth $425,735 or 2.46 % of the overall budget as of 2015 (Hettinger, 2015). Moreover, this unnecessary spoilage creates additional cost and environmental burdens.  On the other hand, this biomass presents an opportunity for UIUC to implement new resource recovery technologies to alleviate waste and increase student activities directly related to sustainability. Hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) is a technology that utilizes elevated temperatures and pressure to convert wet biomasses to oil which can be used in motors or asphalts, potentiates greater sustainability by simultaneously remediating the food waste going to landfills and producing renewable energy.