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:
Albury City Council
553 Kiewa Street
Albury NSW 2640
Fone Zone - Albury
Centro Albury
487 Kiewa St
Albury NSW 2640
Optus World - Albury
Cnr Hume Highway and Kiewa St
Albury NSW 2640
Telstra Shop - Albury
469 Dean St
Albury NSW 2640
Vodafone - Albury
539 Dean Street
Albury NSW 2640
Reconnect Communications - Albury
525 David Street
Albury NSW 2640
Always Connected - Albury
525 David Street
Albury NSW 2640
Greater Hume Shire Council
39 Young Street
Holbrook NSW 2644
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.
