It appears that every city has its own policy regarding recycling. Some cities accept everything with no sorting required while some cities provide citizens with multiple bins for sorting and the trucks that pick up recycling have separate compartments to accommodate the sorted materials. In my city no sorting is required, but they don't accept styrofoam or glass. Other cities I've lived in accepted both of those. One of those cities required sorting and the other did not. So, part of the problem being discussed here is that it depends on where you live. Also, for some folks, there is no Staples or Best Buy in their town and they have to drive an hour or more to get to a city where there is one of these stores which illustrates yet another aspect of the general issue being discussed here. As I said in a previous post, Brother has an EXCELLENT recycling program that Canon could emulate. First, recycling information on Brother's website is really easy to find. Second, information about what is recyclable and what is refillable is clearly stated. Third, you can send recyclables to them and they pay the postage, thus providing incentive to recycle empty containers be it bottles or cartridges. Thank you to sfsg for providing current information/status on Canon's lack of recycling availability because it confirms what T_H_M stated in their original post that began this thread and what I have persisted saying in my posts. And that is, the ink bottles for Canon products do not appear to be recyclable and they offer little to no support for this issue.
