Looks like the makers of the raspberry pi is doing the right thing with waste.
E-waste is negative thing in society as we know. The chemicals, the materials used to make the electronics.
Is proven to harmful to the earth as well as humans. Along with the E-waste alone, is the packaging. Everyone knows who buys electronics today. whether is is a cell phone, pc, or any, is the packaging. Yes, of course the manufactures want to protect those expensive gadgets. However buying a new pc today leaves you with a box full of plastic wrapping, cardboard, zip ties, bubble wrap or Styrofoam.
That all ends up in landfills, unless you take to a processing facility or as we do, reuse in shipping used electronics for our bus.
Looking at the new raspberry pi, they were interested in using recyclable packaging.