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A few of us electronics hobbyists have been collecting them (when found discarded on the street) to harvest the battery for re-use in other projects.
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Yes they're nasty, but I pick them up with a dog poo bag and clean them before cracking them open to get the battery.
For anyone wanting to learn more there's a bigclive video covering the extraction process.