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
Rundle Mall
69 Rundle Mall
Adelaide SA 5000
Arts Sa
110 Hindley Street
Adelaide SA 5000
Axiom Communications
14 Grentfell St
Adelaide SA 5000
Crazy Johns Rundle Mall
134 Rundle Mall
Adelaide SA 5000
Fone Zone - Adelaide Franklin St
141 Franklin Street
Adelaide SA 5000
Fone Zone - Adelaide Rundle Mall
Rundle Mall Plaza
50 Rundle Mall
Adelaide SA 5000
Optus World - Adelaide Gawler Place
Da Costa Arcade
Gawler Place
Adelaide SA 5000
Optus World - Adelaide Gouger St
96 Gouger Street
Adelaide SA 5000
Optus World - Adelaide Rundle Mall
Rundle Mall
Adelaide SA 5000
Telstra Shop - Adelaide Grenfell St
50 Grenfell Street
Adelaide SA 5000
Telstra Shop - Adelaide Pirie St
Telstra House
30 Pirie Street
Adelaide SA 5000
Telstra Shop - Adelaide Rundle Mall
Cnr Rundle Mall & Pulteney St
Adelaide SA 5000
Wireless Communications
51 Gilbert Street
Adelaide SA 5000
Allphones - Citicentre
Rundle Mall
Adelaide SA 5000
Telstra Sales - Adelaide
Telstra House
30 Pirie Street
Adelaide SA 5000
Allphones - Myer Centre Adelaide
The Myer Centre
Rundle Mall
Adelaide SA 5000
Cartridge World - Adelaide
224 Franklin Street
Adelaide SA 5000
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.
