A great place for your garbage, and your hazardous waste. What are you gonna do? It beats putting…read moreyour trash in public places.

Customer service was poor. I work during the day and had a couch to drop off. I got off from work…read moreat 4:30pm and drove straight to the waste station. I arrived at 5:02pm to find the gate closed and the staff at the gate turned me away. Her response was to come back the next day at 8am (when I'm working). I under stand operation hours, however the rigidity displayed by the staff was unhelpful given the small size of the load I was trying to deposit (a single couch). I'm sure there were still other customers inside at the time. The hours of operation are ridiculous as well. It is a disservice to customers for the waste station to have traditional banker's hours and not have alternate hours available during the week. These hours conflict with the availability of most working customers.

Ok, those cans had been in my car for nearly a week and people break into cars for less reasons so…read moreI really needed to get them done. I was in the area and thinking that this spot was probably a horrible idea especially so close to their closing time. I was completely wrong! I live in Beaverton and the redemption center by me is a mess with a very long line of people cashing in their max. This was shockingly efficient - even with the people in line who clearly know what's what and are ready to rock. Everyone was averaging 2 bags. There is a security person right at the door calling out the free lane for you to go to. The floor was clean and I was just impressed as to the efficiency and how fast it was.

Went to recycle some cans with my son. The bags we brought in were clean when we brought them, but…read morebecame very dirty in the facility bc obviously there is nasty liquid everywhere. Our leftover items the machine wouldn't take and our bags were covered in filth by the time we were done and there is no trash bin you can put that trash in. I did not want to put it in my car, so what am I supposed to do with it? The answer is plan ahead and bring an additional clean bag so you can get the stuff back home. But the reality is that 95% of ppl at the bottle drop are homeless. So why is the city not providing a trash bin nearby?? It's ridiculous. In my case it wasn't much trash and we were parked outside a nearby business so we put the trash in a trash can outside. There was no sign saying what sort of trash was allowed or not allowed. The security guard for the business (Lowe's) was outside and didn't say a thing when I put the trash in the bin. He then took the trash back out and chased us down with it! It was uncalled for! What a power trip! Why not have a sign on the trash can, or say "I'm sorry no recycling trash in that bin". When I asked why he didn't just say something or have a sign he immediately became volatile saying "have fun sleeping outside"! H clearly is blinded by hatred for the homeless community that makes up the majority of folks in that area bc neither myself or my son look homeless anyway but it still doesn't excuse his behavior. In the end though.. where are homeless ppl supposed to put their garbage?? Carry it around for eternity?? Can the bottle drop area get a trash can for crying out loud?? Portland residents are taxed enough to support a dumpster. I don't think it's an unreasonable request seeing how the mission of the bottle drop is supposedly to keep Oregon clean and pristine. What a joke!!

Not sure why trash gets such bad reviews, maybe because we don't have many choices about who…read morehandles our trash. I guess we got lucky. We live in outer NE Portland and for the past 5 years we've paid Portland Disposal and Recycling to handle what we didn't consume. First, there were a couple of times our garbage was missed but you know what? Two of those times I had forgotten to pay our bill. One time we were passed up. Life isn't perfect. We managed for the week and realized we buy too much crap and throw away too much crap. It was a small thing that didn't deserve our energy or drama and we learned from it. Second, a couple of the drivers helped us do a better job of being better customers. It's a relationship to pay for a service we want. They don't work for me. We work together to get my needs met. No trash is spilled on the ground if your lids open toward the street and the bins are spaced a bit apart so they can be easily picked up by a big machine. Also, these are good humans doing a tough job. They work early in the morning and they handle all the things we don't want anymore. Be compassionate. Be grateful there are good people doing jobs that are cold, difficult and early. Not every human in every company is happy or friendly. There are some unhappy people out here in the real world. Be kind. Move along. We've been happy with the service and grateful it exists in our country and our neighborhood.

I called, phone answered quickly, problem explained, problem solved! Well done, very pleasant…read moreperson answered the phone and took care of me!

I'd been putting off trashing an unused hot tub for a year. Thought maybe I'd do it myself with…read moresome friends. It didn't happen. Slam Dunk came in and made short work of it. Not easy work either. But they made it look easy and were great to work with. Would hire again.

This is an update to my previous review. After posting my initial review, I was immediately…read morecontacted by the Slam Dunk Junk team to remedy the situation. Everything was very reasonable and prompt with a strong sense of wanting to "get things right" for, me, the customer. We were able to come up with a solution and get the rest of the work taken care of so that the job was fully done. The team, once again was incredibly professional and handled things in a way that demonstrates that they really take pride in their business and brand. How they handled a misaligned situation speaks volumes about the overall integrity and fairness of their business. I would recommend Slam Dunk Junk for work in the future.

Great...they helped unload and accepted what we had. I've used them before, always with good luckread more

If I could give them no stars I would! I called this business and the automated recording said…read morehours are Mon-Sat 8:30-5:30PM and closed Sunday. I arrive at the location and both gates are open and sign posted in front reads the same hours. So wouldn't a normal person believe the business was open ???? I wasn't the only one that thought this way yet I get there and I'm very rudely told they close at 4:30 and argued with me saying he had no control over what their business sign says or what their phone recording says because according to him both sign in front and phone recording are things the business doesn't control. I'm sorry but I don't think so, you hand painted homemade sign isn't controlled by your business....I call bullshit. I wish I could post a picture to show proof of what I'm saying. A homeless man had seen the same signs on separate visits to the business so he walked over 2 hours to get there in time only to be rudely turned away as well. Oh and it's very bad business to imply that a customer is an idiot because the 2 forms of contact said close at 5:30 but yet the one place not checked said 4:30. My point is 2 out of 3 say one thing and the other a different thing so what are you supposed to take is gospel? I figured the phone recording must be correct but then again I guess I'm just too stupid to think the information a business gives out could possibly be correct.......

Recycling Adventure:…read more I recently had to clean out my garage and a couple of rooms inside our house in order to prepare to host some visitors from overseas for a couple of weeks this summer. I'd accumulated 20-years of junk! It looked like a job for Extreme Make Over - Home Edition, but without the army of contractors or Sears and Ty Pennington to help. It almost looked like an episode of Oprah about folks who hoard everything! I had all the usual junk that would typically be recyclable curbside, but I had both too much of it for a single curbside load, as well as plenty of 'stuff' that wasn't on the curbside list of recyclables (like block Styrofoam packaging, etc). Of course, some of the stuff I wanted to jettison was perfectly reusable and I didn't want it to simply get tossed (working, but old computer and home electronics stuff, etc). And while some of the stuff qualified as Salvation Army and Goodwill candidates, some didn't. I discovered Portland's Metro Recycling Web-Site and Hot-line and they supplied me with a list of local resources for all the various types of junk that I wanted to recycle, including the block Styrofoam packing material. Besides their hot-line phone number, their web-site has a nifty search feature that taps into their huge database of local recyclers for everything from soup-to-nuts (so-to-speak). http://www.oregonmetro.gov/index.cfm/go/by.web/id=1383 It is a handy service that just works!

It's the dump smells really bad and And it's very rare to see the place Without garbage coming out…read moreof the doors so Before backing in Make sure to ask the attendant if the floors has been swept of nails .... Last thing you want to do is get a flat and be stuck at the smelly dump :-)

I've been recycling a variety of waste stuff now for 20+ years! Quick, easy and painless…read moredrive-thru! Almost everything they take and on occasion I need pay but not often and once they paid me a whopping $2 Bucks in a check!'' Good place close to the big Vancouver Lake and very easy to find?' 5 stars nothing less? ''Thank you''

I have been a customer for.over 20 years, before it changed to Recology. I probably missed one or…read more2 garbage Pickups during that time. In the last year with recology I have missed 3 or 4. Now I'm being told I am following the wrong schedule. For more than 20 years it has been the last Tuesday of the month. Im now in my se entries and forget sometimes and I just received a schedule with my pickup dates o sme.times it is the first Tuesday, and sometimes the second Tuesday and the third Tuesday and the 5th Tuesday and oneonthon the 5th Tuesday. Could they make m it any more difficult.​

Their sign and online all says close at 3pm. I drove a huge load from far away over and the lady…read morehad "already shut her system down" at 2:50pm. Said they closed at 2:3". Horrible employee who doesn't understand it's that easy to just come back later with a huge trailer full of trash.