Well, these goals are about sustainability of batteries and electric related “stuff” in general not just phones. Phone affect us the most in terms of everyday life and addiction but in terms of long term impact to the environment and what we need to focus on the most that’s a harder nut to crack b/c we don’t know how growth will happen moving forward. So I think this makes sense to have a broad/sweeping legislation that covers lots of mediums and has different targets depending on the size/usage of the “thing”. Obviously removing a battery from a car is not the same thing (in terms of complexity or even ‘need’) as removing a battery from an electric scooter.

There seem to be different target/goals based on the applicance/vehicle type. The title is a bit terse on this post but it’s obviously the most catchy, so I get it. EV’s would fall into the group needing to have some recycled content in them. From the article:

The regulation provides for mandatory minimum levels of recycled content for industrial, SLI batteries and EV batteries. These are initially set at 16% for cobalt, 85% for lead, 6% for lithium and 6% for nickel. Batteries will have to hold a recycled content documentation.