Recycling is a serious issue and full marks to IBM for taking the time and trouble to deliver a press release on the subject it has decided against using popcorn as a replacement for foam packaging because for sensitive products such as IBM’s it is inadequate because it tends to settle and provide inconsistent, poorer protection: also, IBM products may be stored for weeks, during which time popcorn could attract bugs and rodents indeed, we can imagine what unsavoury condition the popcorn that surrounds AS/400s allocated for the UK market would be in, the size of the rats in Rochester, Minnesota…
