recycling

Local business owners and community members interested in going beyond recycling will not want to miss “Reducing Environmental Impacts of Packaging and Products”. This presentation and discussion focuses on the best kept secret—that materials efficiency provides some of the most cost-effective and money saving strategies for a healthy triple bottom line.

Community members are invited to attend at:
1:30-3 p.m., Wednesday January 6, 2010

Time to Re-THINK Re-CYCLING and look at Re-USE!

Today, November 15th, is America Recycles Day (ARD). ARD is the only nationally recognized day dedicated to encouraging Americans to recycle and to buy recycled products. Celebrating its 12th year, it has grown to include millions of Americans pledging to increase their recycling habits at home and work and to buy products made with recycled materials.

At NextStep, we are always llooking for ways to take recycling to the NEXT STEP - meaning, what ELSE can we do to make a difference?

Eugene Weekly readers selected NextStep Recycling for Best Environmentally Friendly Business in Eugene at the Eugene Weekly Best of Eugene Awards on October 24th, 2009. Lorraine Kerwood, Executive Director of NextStep Recycling and Laurie McVicar, NextStep ReUSE Store Manager, were honored to receive the award from Mayor Kitty Piercy, and Eugene's blogger, Jaculynn Peterson, from MyEugene.org.

BRING It Home--A Tour of Homes and Gardens
Sunday, July 26, 2009
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Creative reuse and green building in action
Tickets on sale now!

TAKE THE NEXT STEP WITH YOUR OLD CELL PHONES, IPODS, GAMEBOYS, DIGITAL CAMERAS, NINTENDO DS, GPS DEVICES, MP3 PLAYERS, VOICE RECORDERS, CALCULATORS, AND PDAS

NextStep and Lane County businesses are joining forces to help local residents and businesses recycle their obsolete cell phones, iPods, GameBoys, digital cameras, Nintendo DS, GPS devices, MP3 players, voice recorders, calculators, and PDAs, during a special collection event to be held April 13th through April 30th 2009.

The Green Class at Spencer Butte Middle School (SBMS) explores our world’s climate crisis using different scales; individual, community, and global. Recent topics have included: