[fbrchps]

Anecdote: I recently received a new M3 MacBook Pro at work, and the box was 100% recyclable, as well as everything inside of it - instruction manuals (why?) were held together with paper, the power cord had paper around it, and the keyboard/screen separator was also tissue paper.

I'm not denying that there's "plasticized paper" in the box, but as far as I could tell, it was 100% recyclable. As for "breaking down the box", if you flip the lid around to the bottom of the box, and then stack them together, then it saves a good bit of space. But yes the moulded cardboard that held the laptop itself was a pain to get out of the bottom section.

[iainmerrick]

Was it a box you opened via a flap? Or one of those board game style boxes with a close-fitting lid, but manufactured in super heavyweight material with sub-micron snugness of fit? Those look nice but I find them pretty annoying.