Removing Hardware from Packages
Power adapters used the largest number of certain materials according to Apple, these include but not limited to plastic, copper and tin. They estimate that removing them along with earpods from the packages of smartphones they ship, they’ll circumvent the process of mining over 550,000 metric tons of copper, tin and zinc ore. The removal of these hardware also allows for smaller and much lighter packaging for shipping, they made note that it made them add 70% more smartphone boxes on shipping pallets which itself eventually aids in carbon reduction.
Click here for Apple's Reason for removing hardware from shipped new devices.
Below is a look at Apple's new iphone boxes