[iainmerrick]

Good question — I forgot the article is from a few years back and things have changed a little. Their packaging is not as wasteful as before but still not great.

I bought an m2 laptop a few months back, and a Pencil recently.

Both boxes are double-walled and double-nested. I find them very hard to open, and they’re close to indestructible which makes them very annoying to break down for recycling. The boxes are glued rather than folded.

The insert trays do seem to be some kind of paper composite now rather than plastic, that’s good. The Pencil one is glued in place, that’s bad. (I still have the box because it’s so annoying to recycle! I guess it’s small enough that I could just toss it in without breaking it down.)

Absolutely every component has a little individual wrapping. Again, they do seem to be mostly paper now (though with some plastic I think) which is an improvement.