Take Action

In collaboration with the City of Omaha and FCC Environmental Services, Creighton University hosts a community recycling drop-off located on campus at 17th and Burt Streets. Campus community members are encouraged to drop off recyclable items in addition to glass at the community recycling drop-off.

Learn about other recycling efforts on campus.

The Office of Sustainability Programs collaborates with the Schlegel Center for Service and Justice (SCSJ) to offer Environmental Justice Community Orientations. Additionally, SCSJ offers service opportunities that intersect with sustainability and environmental justice for students and staff.

As students educated in a Jesuit University in the Jesuit tradition, we are aware that a unique aspect of our education lies within the University's commitment to the promotion of justice. We have been afforded the privilege of gaining skills and knowledge to prosper in the world. However, we recognize that with this privilege comes great responsibility. In an increasingly interdependent global community, our political and economic decisions in the First World have profound results in developing countries. Thus, our goal as the Peace and Justice Cooperative is to align the Jesuit values surrounding social justice and solidarity with the poor together with our daily actions and consumer choices as individual members of this institution and as a University. Moreover, we are committed to educating the whole Creighton community about the importance of such alignment and the issues raised in our research and experience. In educating the whole Creighton community, we created a Creighton Fair Trade Resolution that has been approved and recognized by every administrative governing body on campus.