My roommate wants us to start recycling our cans at the local grocery store that has a machine where you can dump in cans and get points on a debit card thing for the grocery store. His idea is that we use the money as a slush fund for cleaning supplies. Frankly I don't it's worth the effort for a few reasons. We have to drive a ways to get to that specific store. The recycling area floors usually have spilled beer from the cans all over. Lastly the place typically has a line of homeless people to wait behind who collect and recycle the cans in the same way. I can just put our cans in the recycling bin in front of our house and let the city waste management guys pick it up. If my roommate wanted to do it himself I would say go for it and I don't care what you do with the money. But he wants me to alternate trips with him on a regular basis. I don't need this extra money and as far as I know neither does he. WIBTA if I stand firm and say I'm not participating?