The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pursuing development of a large-scale food waste composting facility on the University's property, in order to compost food waste from University dining halls.This interest is precipitated by the commitment made by the University in the 2010 Illinois Climate Action Plan (iCAP): "The University will commit to ... a large-scale food composting project by 2012." The new facility will initially receive and process all acceptable pre and post-consumer food waste from six dining halls on campus, as well as supplementary landscape waste as necessary carbon bullring material from Campus Grounds. In the future, if needed, the system may accept additional landscape waste from the city of Champaign as well as livestock bedding and other animal-related organic waste from the University Agricultural and Animal Sciences Departments. The finished product will provide rich compost material to agricultural projects on campus such as the Sustainable Student Farm, as well as to campus grounds and athletic fields.