@HalvarFlake Cardboard and paper can just be recycled into new cardboard and paper, it doesn't need to be composted.
But yeah, battery recycling is still in its early days, although there's slowly enough of a market to do it, with some real development that makes it feasible, profitable, etc.
I'm pretty sure precious metals are already profitable, even outside of vendors like Apple, but is still rather 'dirty’, because so many vendors don't keep track of re-exports, if they even have a collection program to begin with.
Which is why I get annoyed at headlines highlighting Apple this, Apple that, allowing everyone else to duck ?