KENNEBEC JOURNAL • February 4, 2023
Amanda and Tom Roddy are tired. The owners of Roddy’s Redemption Center have been working daily shifts, nights and weekends to sort the flood of bottles and cans their account holders and customers drop off at the Route 3 business they bought almost five years ago. “There are two big struggles for redemption centers,” Amanda Roddy said recently. “One is that you can’t find people to work. And the other part of it is that the state has not given us a raise in four years, yet they keep upping the minimum wage, and the cost of living goes up every year.”