It's terrible.
Just a few of my headaches:
• Smells absolutely terrible
• When walking down Castro with my girlfriend we use the other side after many overly aggressively slurs from the slew of bums that hang out by this heap.
• It draws numerous crews of drifters that recycle cans then binge on the spoils on the steps of safeway. Fights break out weekly.
• It creates a "hobo highway" in which my female friends now avoid because it is filled with bums. This looks like rape alley at night.
• Bums bring their dogs to wait in line and they shit all over the sidewalk. That was awesome to wipe off in the morning.
• The really crazy bums like to ride their carts down market street flying through red lights, which I was almost hit by last month.
It might be cool to support the ongoing of recycling centers so less fortunate people have a way to make money but try living next to the place before writing an article about how you think its so unhippie of San Francisco.