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Mobile Phones Recycling Hotline

MobileMuster

Don't let mobiles go to landfill or gather dust in a drawer! Help address the e-waste epidemic by recycling your used mobile phones and accessories. Simply drop them into a participating location.

Mobile Phones and mobile batteries cannot be recycled in your council recycling bins. There are a number of mobile phone recycling programs that you can get involved in that will help to protect our environment and conserve our natural resources. The MobileMuster program has a number of drop off locations that are listed below.

The MobileMuster phone recycling drop-off locations near you include:

3 Shop Rundle Mall
Shop E200 Rundle Mall
69 Rundle Mall
Adelaide SA 5000

Arts Sa
110 Hindley Street
Adelaide SA 5000

Crazy Johns Rundle Mall
134 Rundle Mall
Adelaide SA 5000

Fone Zone - Adelaide Franklin St
141 Franklin Street
Adelaide SA 5000

Optus World - Adelaide Gawler Place
Shop 6 Da Costa Arcade
Gawler Place
Adelaide SA 5000

Optus World - Adelaide Gouger St
96 Gouger Street
Adelaide SA 5000

'yes' Optus Rundle Mall
Shop 6
Rundle Mall
Adelaide SA 5000

T[life] - Adelaide Grenfell St
50 Grenfell Street
Adelaide SA 5000

T[life] - Adelaide Rundle Mall
Shop 159
Cnr Rundle Mall & Pulteney Street
Adelaide SA 5000

Vodafone - Rundle Mall
Shop 65 Rundle Mall Plaza
Adelaide SA 5000

Allphones - Citicentre
Shop 155 Rundle Mall
Adelaide SA 5000

Allphones - Myer Centre Adelaide
Shop T10 The Myer Centre
Rundle Mall
Adelaide SA 5000

Cartridge World - Adelaide
224 Franklin Street
Adelaide SA 5000

'yes' Optus Rundle Mall East
31 Citi Centre Arcade
141 Rundle Mall
Adelaide SA 5000

Dick Smith Electronics Adelaide
252 Pulteney Street
Adelaide SA 5000

Dick Smith Electronics Myer Centre
Shop T05 The Myer Centre
22 Rundle Mall
Adelaide SA 5000

Adelaide Gpo Post Shop
141 King William Street
Adelaide SA 5000

Adelaide Hutt Street Post Shop
190 Hutt Street
Adelaide SA 5000

Australia Post Adelaide Sturt Street Lpo
195 Sturt Street
Adelaide SA 5000

Adelaide Business Centre
252 Gouger Street
Adelaide SA 5000

Adelaide Business Centre - Bulk Dock
272 Gouger Street
Adelaide SA 5000

Adelaide Rundle Mall Post Shop
Shop 59 Level 1 City Cross Shopping Cntr
3339 Rundle Mall
Adelaide SA 5000

Adelaide Station Arcade Shop
Shop 14 Station Arcade
52 Hindley Street
Adelaide SA 5000

Australia Post City West Campus Lpo
56 North Terrace
Adelaide SA 5000

Adelaide Halifax St Post Shop
7 Halifax Street
Adelaide SA 5000

Australian Greens (sa)
239 Wright Street
Adelaide SA 5000

North Adelaide Post Shop
166 Tynte Street
North Adelaide SA 5006

Australia Post Nth Adelaide Melbourne St Lpo
168 Melbourne Street
North Adelaide SA 5006

Other phone recycling locations

About Mobile Phones

  • It is estimated that 21 million mobile phones are in use in Australia. There are potentially 16 million defunct or unused mobile phones.
  • Over 90% of the materials in mobile phones can be recovered to make new products. The gold, silver, copper, nickel, cadmium and plastics in the mobiles can be turned into jewellery, stainless steel, batteries and plastic fence posts and pallets. The mobile phone industry claims that you can recover the same amount of gold from 50,000 handsets as from mining 110 tonnes of gold ore.

Source: AMTA

Importance of Recycling Mobile Phones

  • Throwing old mobiles into landfill can potentially be dangerous. Heavy metals such as the cadmium in the batteries could leach into the environment.

More Information on Mobile Phone Recycling Programs:

  • MobileMuster is the official mobile phone industry recycling program. It is a not for profit program that is run by AMTA (Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association) and is funded solely by its members who pay a levy on every handset they ship into Australia.
  • ARP has a mobile phone recycling program that helps raise money for various charities.