My neighbor (we live in a duplex) is elderly. I offered to combine her recycling with mine. We started out with just (!) the newspaper she receives daily. Then I started retrieving the paper from the street and putting it on her porch for her - after adding the bag it is delivered in to a pile to bring back to the grocery store. Every so often I tell her about something else she can recycle, for example, glass bottles, or the boxes food like pasta comes in, and she begins to add that to the pile. When she is resistant I kid her along but try to add something like “Think of it as something you are doing for Sam, Michael and Julie” (her great-grandchildren). I think it put things into a different light for her!
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