Just changed a cartridge in my printer and it shows a rubbish bin crossed out on it.
Does this mean another trip to the dechetterie? Or is there another way? 
Most supermarkets have containers to collect empty cartridges for recycling - batteries and broken light bulbs too.
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Get it refilled? Buy online much cheaper remanufactured cartridge and return the empty one for refilling?
I’ll check both out, thanks, but I use it so rarely that it’s not worth going to too much trouble. My first thought thought was straight in the rubbish bin, but thenI saw the cross.
We take ours to bureau de la vallee, a stationary shop that is nationwide, and they take them and give us €1 off new cartridge.
In the EU, printer cartridge manufacturers have a responsibility to accept empty cartridges. If it’s a genuine cartridge you go to the printer company website and they should offer a postage free method of sending the empty to them. If it’s a remanufactured or third party cartridge then the company that sold it to you should accept it. Some companies that refill the old cartridges will give you a discount on a new cartridge if you return old ones.
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Again thanks for the info, but it is such a rare event for me that money saving really does not come into it so I will take the simplest course and try the dechetterie when I am that way again on Monday. 