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.