iphone 13: Here’s how Apple has eliminated the plastic wrap from the iPhone 13 box – Times of India

To check if the iPhone 13 unit you bought has not been taken out and or tampered with, you just need to take a look at the tear-off strip. If it is intact, without any tear, then you have the device in mint condition, straight from the assembly line. Unless you open the box, the lid won’t come off.
With this change in the box design, Apple claims that it will help avoid 600 metric tons of plastic. The company plans to go plastic-free on all its packaging from 2025.
Also, Apple claims that the new iPhone 13 Pro and 13 Pro Max use “100 per cent recycled rare earth elements in magnets like those used in MagSafe, 100 per cent recycled tin in the solder of the main logic board and, for the first time, in the solder of the battery management unit” to lessen their adverse impact on the environment. The company aims to go totally carbon neutral by 2030.