Just curious, are lithium batteries worse than other disposable batteries that end up in landfill? In know many are Nickle cadmium, but aren't just as many ALSO lithium batteries?
(Here in Australia at least there are means of "safely" disposing of batteries, and nicotine vapes are in-theory not for sale).
Chickpeas, lentils, beans!
Edit: although these thing are pretty common for a fair chunk of the planet