When you get your hands on a new Apple iPhone 12 series phone this year, you will notice that the packaging is a bit more compact than usual. This is because the power adapter, a standard accessory so far on millions of phones shipped each year, will not be part of the iPhone 12 box packages. We knew this was going to happen and Apple has confirmed that they will not ship another adapter. power with your new iPhone. The reason? You probably already have more than one power adapter in drawers and backpacks, and another will just add to that. The same goes for wired EarPods headphones – they’re being taken off too. Of course, the iPhone 12 boxes will not have the power adapter, but will have the USB-C to Lightning cable.
Apple says making this change allows the iPhone 12 series boxes to be significantly smaller and that means 70% more boxes can be shipped in the same space compared to the previous year’s iPhone boxes. Apple says these changes will reduce more than 2 million metric tons of carbon emissions a year, which is equivalent to taking nearly 450,000 cars off the road per year. There are reasons why removing chargers from new smartphone cases makes perfect sense. For phone manufacturers, it could help cut costs significantly, because they will save resources on one charger for every phone they make. That number will rise to millions within a few months of launch, particularly for popular phones. It also helps make the phone’s packaging smaller and more compact, allowing more to be shipped at the same time, which is definitely great news for the environment. There will be fewer requirements for packaging materials and subsequently less waste. For businesses, that also saves shipping costs – smaller packages mean more boxes can be shipped in the same space and price.
The numbers tell their own story. According to research firm IDC, smartphone companies shipped as many as 368.8 million smartphones in just the fourth quarter of 2019. If we want to extend that throughout the year, we are seeing more than 1 billion phones shipped globally. worldwide in just one year. That means more than 1 billion chargers were also shipped. Many of these smartphones would have been bought by people still using the charger from the phone they just replaced, which means that the charger that came with the new phone is simply still in the box. Resources, financial and environmental, are depleted and yet they remain there. If you need a charger, please buy a charger.
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