In the last decade and a half I have owned 4 phones total and I have yet to have one that has such a poor battery that it has needed the battery replaced before the phone itself was essentially obsolete. I don't know if maybe other people just use their phone so much more than me... Mine sits here on my desks and I look at it for notifications every now and then, maybe send a text... Thats it. Take a phone call once every few days.

My phone is a Pixel 2 from 2018. The battery lasts nearly 2 days without charging, easily. If I am about to go out and use it heavily on maps or GPS... I charge it, and I get an evening's use out of it still easily.

Maybe I'm just not the normal user. But for these people running batteries dead more than once a day and needed to replace a battery once every 2 years... I don't get it.

And this is a level of regulation that I don't think will actually do much to save batteries from landfills.

Meanwhile in Spain there single-use vape pens for sale in every Tabac shop that have small lithium ion cells in them, and people everywhere are literally buying and tossing those cells in the trash every goddamn day. I find them laying on sidewalks all the time. This is still allowed, but a battery tightly sealed in a phone that should last a normal person years is a problem?