BottleDrop Salem Redemption Center

currently a filthy awful unsafe pig-​sty ! Broken glass on the grounds, god-​awful aroma’s, it is trully awful,

Let me try again — BottleDrop is the best IDEA to happen to recycling in Salem since the Bottle Bill was first passed in 1971!
Unfortunately, recycling at BottleDrop has become the same dirty, smelly, wasteful business, with deliberately poor customer service we used to receive before BottleDrop from the individual merchants.
There are not enough machines for the weekend crowds, which results in long, often impatient and short-​tempered lines. The front is understaffed. The back is clearly understaffed.
So I bag and TRY to drop off the recyclables. 100-​percent full, with bags of recyclables falling on the people who open the BottleDrop door.
And as inconvenient and poorly managed I find South Salem to be, it is four times better than the disaster that is the Lancaster BottleDrop location.
Two Stars.

For a while I was throwing my cans into my recycling cart because the amount of work and suffering required to earn one nickle just wasn’t worth it.
Seriously, when you consider what returning bottles USED to be like, you can’t argue that this is THE best place, ever, to return your sticky stinky cans.
No more standing outside waiting for goobers to un-​dent their cans, or wipe off their barcodes, or try the same can over and over and over. The machines take almost every can/​bottle on Earth and if it won’t? Have one of the million staff members count it for you.
No more smelling the putrid rot of lazy can owners.
No more pushing the ‘call’ button for an annoyed teen to un-​jam your machine, shake down the bin, or a place an ‘out of order sign’ on it.
No more moving from the can machine to the plastic machine to the green glass machine to the brown glass machine. All the machines take all you’ve got!
No more sticky floors.
No more flies and yellow jackets.
No more heat exhaustion or hypothermia.
Again, this place is amazing. I love being able to wash my hands with real soap and water when I’m done returning cans! The only downside are the crowds and the folks who are so desperate for a few nickles they’d gladly knock an old lady down to get to the machine first.