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Since 2008 the ASU Campus Harvest has organized the sour orange harvest on the university's Tempe campus. The harvest lasts over three days as more than 100 volunteers collect over 6 tons, or 12,000 pounds of oranges, from across the campus.
Oranges move through to the extractor where they are crushed whole and the juice is seperated from the peel.
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A large container stirs the orange juice as it is squeezed at Sun Orchard juicery.
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Peels and rind are dumped into a waiting truck to be used for agricultural feed outside.
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Maria Chavez picks out bad oranges during the sorting process at Sun Orchard juicery.
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Students select their pickers, regular and periscoped, just outside of the sustainability building on Cady Mall in preparation for the orange harves on ASU's Tempe campus.
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Senior sustainability major Brandon Ruiz picks low hanging oranges just outside of the language and literature building on Cady Mall.
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A group of sustainability students work together to pick and sort oranges in front of the Language and Literature building.
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Sustainability graduate student David Fought inspects oranges, deciding which can be collected and which will be composted Friday afternoon. Volunteers make sure to remove any oranges with holes, cuts or that are damaged into another bin where they will be composted for future use on campus.
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Sustainability freshman Maryam Balqis Abdul Rashid, left, and sustainability sophomore Julia Colbert, right, sort oranges deciding which are good enough to collect and which will be sent for composting during the orange harvest.
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Pinnacle High School student Kara Cordon accidentally gets caught up by her friend while picking oranges on Cady Mall.
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Sustainability senior Shannon Wojcik adds collected oranges to the bin for juicing during the orange harvest. The bin will hold hundreds of pounds by the end of the day.
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Business sustainability junior Elliott Hobbs tosses an orange for composting as Julia Alemon, center, and Kara Cordon, right add oranges for juicing to the bin during the orange harvest on Cady Mall.
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Biochemistry junior Marie Dela Cruz collects oranges just in front of the Languages and Literature building on Cady Mall.
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Biochemistry junior Marie Dela Cruz smiles as she inspects the oranges she has picked for cuts or defects on Cady Mall.
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Sustainability freshman Maryam Balqis Abdul Rashid collects oranges on Cady Mall.
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Graphic design sophomore Sydney Chan laughs while collecting oranges on Cady Mall.
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Marketing and Sports and Media Studies junior Sonia Fan places collected oranges in the bin for juicing.
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Pinnacle High School key club walks their collected oranges back for sorting at the end of the first day of the ASU Campus Harvest orange harvest.
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Alex Gatei, right, and Maria Chavez, left, sort any oranges that may have gone bad before they are transported to the washing station at Sun Orchard Juicery in Tempe.
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The sour oranges receive a strong wash as rolling scrubbers rotate beneath them and water sprays from above at Sun Orchard juicery in Tempe.
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Oranges then travel up a conveyor belt to the extractors where they will be juiced.
Photo by Deanna Dent/ASUNow
Oranges move through to the extractor where they are crushed whole and the juice is seperated from the peel.
Photo by Deanna Dent/ASUNow
A large container stirs the orange juice as it is squeezed at Sun Orchard juicery.
Photo by Deanna Dent/ASUNow
Peels and rind are dumped into a waiting truck to be used for agricultural feed outside.
Photo by Deanna Dent/ASUNow
Maria Chavez picks out bad oranges during the sorting process at Sun Orchard juicery.
Photo by Deanna Dent/ASUNow
Students select their pickers, regular and periscoped, just outside of the sustainability building on Cady Mall in preparation for the orange harves on ASU's Tempe campus.
Photo by Deanna Dent/ASUNow
Senior sustainability major Brandon Ruiz picks low hanging oranges just outside of the language and literature building on Cady Mall.
Photo by Deanna Dent/ASUNow
A group of sustainability students work together to pick and sort oranges in front of the Language and Literature building.
Photo by Deanna Dent/ASUNow
Sustainability graduate student David Fought inspects oranges, deciding which can be collected and which will be composted Friday afternoon. Volunteers make sure to remove any oranges with holes, cuts or that are damaged into another bin where they will be composted for future use on campus.
Photo by Deanna Dent/ASUNow
The oranges are then transported to Sun Orchard juicery in Tempe, where they are juiced and bottled to be used for cooking and making "devil ade" — which is served as part of ASU's Aramark campus dining rooms.
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