The cardboard boxes wouldn't be so bad were it not for the polystyrene packing that's put in there to protect the electronics they accompany. Actually, these things are quite cool, especially if you paint them silver (and I had an art teacher who rigged up a piece of wire to a fairly powerful battery, which allowed pupils to carve all sorts of things out of polystyrene packaging, those being the days before health and safety began to notice things like toxic fumes, or, indeed, the combination of teenagers and unauthorised hot wires. He would send us out on occasional foraging expeditions to Currys).