I have asserted before that convenience is one of the most important things to getting people to recycle. This makes it difficult to implement any long-term recycling program that works because convenience costs money. The biggest factor causing this necessity for convenience is the ease of getting what we want when we want it. We have become so used to convenience in everything we do, it has bred a sort of “laziness” in us all so that even when faced with obvious good decisions such as recycling or not being wasteful, we only make the “best” decision when it is convenient or if we get something in return right now. And if you think the rising generation is more in tune with issues of conservation of resources, read this article. If we could just get most people to stop looking at every action with the “what’s in it for me” syndrome, I think we could finally take huge leaps forward in reducing waste, poverty, illness, greed, etc.