Creighton University

• News
• Curriculum
• Alternative Energy
• Buildings
• Dining Services
• Energy
• Landscape
• Policy
• Purchasing
• Recycling
  • Recyclemania
  • Single Stream Recycling
  • Universal waste recycling
  • Recyling Household Waste
  • End of Year Donations
  • Give and Go
• Transportation
• Climate Commitment
• oneShirt
• Administration and Finance
• Get Involved

Sustainability  >  Recycling

Please see our universal waste page for more information on recycling the following items:

Computers and electronics

Batteries

Aerosol cans

Fluorescent bulbs

Mercury

Confused about what can and can't be recycled?  Look no further than these handy posters!

Recycling poster

What can't be recycled?

You can put the following items in your desk-side recycling bin:

• Paper products -- all types, including
  • Office paper, copy paper, colored paper
  • Envelopes
  • Cereal boxes, paper packaging, etc.
  • Newspaper
  • Magazines, catalogs, and phone books
  • Cardboard -- Please break boxes down. Thank you!
  • Pizza boxes (no pizza bones!)
  • Coffee cups (Green Mountain -- no styrofoam)
• Empty water and pop bottles or cans (lids do not need to be removed)
• Clean  plastic containers -- all types
• Metal containers -- all types
• Frozen food trays and plastic carryout containers (These items must be rinsed out)
• Plastic cups, cookie trays, etc.
  
  

** Please note that all of these items must be clean and empty.

Drs. Reese and Ikling teach us in a humorous way what can and can't be recycled.  RECYCLING 101.

Billy Bluejay reminds us to recycle! BILLY RECYCLES

Trash must not be thrown into the recycle bins.  Please put the following items in your centrally located trash receptacle:

• Food and liquid
• Chip, gum and candy wrappers (including foil)
• Kleenex, tissue paper or paper towels
• Construction material
• Plastic bags
• Glass
• Wax-lined beverage cups

It is with great pleasure that we announce that the Single Stream Recycling program has gone into effect in quite a few buildings across campus. 

Single-stream recycling is an easy way to recycle -- simply put all of your recyclable material into one can.  No sorting, no separate bins!

 

The following is a brief description of the process: 

 

Creighton's Recycling Committee Goal: 

To implement a convenient, safe, and cost effective waste management program that integrates both the collection of single stream recycling material and trash.  Student, faculty, and staff feedback is critical to continuously improve and expand our existing program. Recycling is one component of sustainability, so we also strive to provide our community with information regarding sustainable living and reducing our environmental impact.

Individual Responsibilities:

• Employees will collect single stream items at their desk and walk “trash” to a common receptacle.  
• Students in residence halls have a recycling bin in each room.  They will collect their items in their rooms and walk the recycling to the large bins in central locations in each hall.

University Responsibilities: 

• Replace each desk side trash receptacle with a single stream recycle receptacle.
• Place a “trash” receptacle in a common spot within each suite/area. 
• Custodians will empty the desk side single stream containers and the centralized trash receptacles on a regular schedule. They will clean the desk side containers as needed since can liners cannot be used in single stream receptacles.
• Custodians WILL NOT empty any desk side trash receptacles.
• Custodians will move full recycling bins from the residence halls to a central location for pickup.

Recycle and trash receptacles have been placed in common areas in the buildings.  Please continue to use the single stream recycling process throughout the building.

The single-stream process will be rolling out across campus.

TONER and INKJET CARTRIDGES can be returned for recycling.  If your cartridge comes with a mailback label, please use it.  If there is no label, simply mark it with "RECYCLE" and contact Central Receiving at 280-2397 for pickup.  They will collect the cartridges and send them back to the recycler.

Recycling update (Printable version of the above information)

 

A husband-and-wife team of Creighton employees heads up a program for recycling goods from the residence halls leftover at the end of the year.