[jmbwell]

The box certainly resists crushing, although it is also, presumably, designed to resist crushing to protect its contents.

The current Apple packaging is 100% recyclable though. There is no plastic. The box is closed with adhesive paper tabs, everything inside is paper, the cable wrap is paper. You can open the box and remove the device and cables and chuck the rest in your bin directly.

I think for most people, the occasional uncrushable box is not a big deal. Where I am, where we open these things all the time, it’s kind of a hassle. But then again we have a machine for crushing boxes.

It’s a little precious, but Apple packaging is hardly “bad.”