How can a Canadian consumer recycle a single toner cartridge for a laser printer?

[Bill-St-1926]

How does a Canadian consumer recycle a single toner cartridge for a laser printer? For U.S. consumers: it is simple, just use the prepaid postage label included in the toner box. But Canadian customers are directed to this website page:  hp.ca/suppliesrecycle   where the only option is to order a "return box", which is huge: 5 cubic feet, enough room for 20 ! cartridges.

I only want to return a single cartridge - how?

[Repairatrooper]

You should be able to drop them off at a local Staples store or check the recycling Council for your province.

[Bill-St-1926]

HP offers U.S. customers the convenience of returning single cartridge by mail.  Why is the same offer not available in Canada?  Staples is several miles from my home.

[Repairatrooper]

I do not work for HP but the logic I see behind that is to reduce the amount of shipping by encouraging resellers to have bulk return boxes in their location where customer's can drop off their used cartridge when they purchase a new one. Shipping twenty individual cartridges is much less efficient than shipping 20 at once. I can speak for other dealers but when customers buy new cartridges from us we will take the used ones back. Talk to whomever you are buying your cartridges from to see why they do not offer any service like that.

[Bill-St-1926]

agreed, shipping 20 at once is more cost effective.  I take offence when U.S. companies like HP continue to offer convenience  to their domestic customers in the U.S. (mailing back single cartridge), but then discontinue that same convenient service that they used to offer also in Canada.

[dZehr]

Hey, you could quite easily return the single cartridge in the big box. There would be enough room for it in there, and evidently you have one, or how would you know how big it is? I had no idea what one of these "boxes" would be, until I got 6 of these tremedous boxes, and I don't know what to do with them. The website gave no information about the box, but asked how many boxes I wanted. I said "6" because I had 6 cartridges to return, and had no idea what other number to put in.

[Bill-St-1926]

box is 20" x 20" x 24".  My guess is that each box would hold approx 15-20 cartridges.  
Hopefully someone from HP Canada is reading all of this.  They previously had a system that worked fine for Canadian (print mailing label from their website to return a single cartridge).  No longer the case, which sucks.