>Rather than disposing of batteries after two or three years

Interesting to frame it this way, given that most phones nowadays don't even feature easily replaceable batteries.

People don't "dispose of batteries". If anything they dispose entire phones. Not to mention that most "phone batteries" I have come across actually last a lot longer than two or three years to begin with.

>Only 10% of used handheld batteries, including for mobile phones, are collected for recycling in Australia, which is low by international standards. The remaining 90% of batteries go to landfill or are disposed of incorrectly, which causes considerable damage to the environment.

>The high cost of recycling lithium and other materials from batteries is a major barrier to these items being reused, but the team’s innovation could help to address this challenge.

They don't actually adress the issue they are complaining about here, which is "handheld batteries" not being collected for recycling. How is introducing yet another "revolutionary" battery technology going to prevent phones ending up in landfills becasue people dispose of them incorrectly?

Answer: It won't.

What a strange article.