Too Much to Ask?

Is it really too much to ask of my friends to actually care about what they're doing to the environment? I'm not telling them to only buy organic foods and clothing or drive a hybrid. I don't even do those things, except for occasionally buying organic when it's not too expensive. They act like it's so hard to recycle because they have to walk or take the elevator downstairs to the recycling room. This is just the epitome of laziness. My friend who is living with me in an apartment next year asked if she had to recycle. Of course, she does. I will do it for her if she really can't handle taking the extra seconds to put items in the recycling bin. Smoking is by the far the worst of my friends' habits because after they're done with their cigarettes, they just throw the butts wherever they please. This really bothers me because all of those cigarette butts eventually find their way onto beaches and into the ocean. I cleaned a beach in Dorchester last September, and it was both amazing and appalling to see what kind of things people just leave behind without a care in the world. I wonder where this mentality came from. Society is perpetuating a cycle of laziness, which will eventually catch up with us and then people will finally realize how stupid their behavior has been all these years.