My mother encouraged a habit of recycling that I wanted to take up by collecting our aluminum cans. The problem was that she wanted me to use our sledgehammer to crush the cans so that they took up the least amount of space in the bag. This created a problem because it required a lot of effort to crush hundreds of cans with a sledgehammer, and, eventually, I lost interest after a big payout.

I will probably force that household to recycle properly and effectively without wasting effort on menial tasks when I go back there to visit and take over.