Packaging taking over the earth

On Saturday i bought a set of new Canon printer cartridges for my Canon Pixma ip4200 printer, I had previously bought some refilled ones at a fraction of the cost from ebay, but, they didn't really work all that well. I have five separate cartridges in total, a big Black, a smaller Black and three smaller Magenta, Cyan and Yellow, the trouble was my printer kept telling me i needed to change cyan and magenta even after i'd changed it, and then even when it accepted that i had changed it, it still didn't seem to be able to print the correct colours.
My printer was on drugs i tell you, 'Lucy in the sky with diamonds" and all that malarky.
However the one good thing about the ebay refills was the minimum packaging, they all came together in one envelope and each cartridge was individually wrapped in that soft airtight plastic stuff, the only other thing was an A4 piece of paper with instructions on how to prize the chip off your old cartridge and stick it to your new refilled one, that was all.

Look at the packaging that came with one of the five genuine Canon cartridges that i bought from PC World, it's unbelievable the amount of plastic and cardboard that has gone into protecting one tiny cartridge.