NextStep Recycling Donation Center

Hannah Harney

Next Step is the only step! They were so helpful and nice and remarkably affordable! Always heard good things and now I know why! (But they don’t have a public bathroom!)

Zachary Lunte

We (mac tonic) have worked with NextStep for a number of years and they've always been great!

Judy Abel

Every time I come to Nextstep I am greeted warmly and I am always pleased with the service and cost savings. I have purchased several electronic components and TVs for my business. Nextstep is one of the best things about Eugene!

Rain Howard

Call and ask them what they recycle and they tell you "pretty much everything". One of their webpages says "if it plugs in or takes batteries". The other says "If dropped off at our donation center during open hours; we accept almost all electronic devices (working or not) free of charge. We welcome a wide variety of items; computers of course, but also everything from christmas lights to microwaves." And so you load up the old electronic devices, head on down, pull up, get told "we don't that". Or that. Or those. Now I'm not going to fault the employee or volunteer, nor am I going to be rude to them. What I am going to say, publicly, is that NextStep needs to figure out what it is they do and do not take and make that very clear to the public. It's not terribly hard to update webpages with a list of things you don't take. And it sure would save not only the people using your organization to recycle but probably more importantly, your employees, a lot of aggravation. Because no, you don't take it "if it plugs it or takes batteries". In fact there seems to be a pretty long list of things you don't take. And that is fine, I get it, especially these days. But make that information public. It's that "almost all" you need to clarify. It's just a bit too ambiguous.