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:
Anz Bank Five Dock
88 Great North Road
Five Dock NSW 2046
Armidale Dumaresq Council
135 Rusden St
Armidale NSW 2350
Telstra Shop - Armidale
191 Beardy St
Armidale NSW 2350
Vodafone - Armidale
Armidale Plaza
Cnr Beardy & Dangar Streets
Armidale NSW 2350
Battery World - Armidale
149 Miller Sreet
Armidale NSW 2350
Armidale Dumaresq Council -recycling Station
Long Swamp Road
Armidale NSW 2350
Armidale Dumaresq Council - Waste Transfer Station
Long Swamp Road
Armidale NSW 2350
Harvey Norman - Armidale
Girraween Shopping Centre
Armidale NSW 2350
My Car Sound & Communications
11 Marsh Street
Armidale NSW 2350
Collect Girraween
8 Queen Elizabeth Drive
Armidale NSW 2350
Neal Howards Electrical Service
70 Bridge Street
Uralla NSW 2358
Caltex Roadhouse - Guyra
New England Highway
Guyra NSW 2365
Kempsey Shire Council
22 Tozer Street
West Kempsey NSW 2440
Kempsey Shire Council - Library
Elbow Street
West Kempsey NSW 2440
Kempsey Shire Council - Hat Head Library
Straight Street
Hat Head NSW 2440
Kempsey Shire Council - Visitor Information Centre
South Kempsey Park
Kempsey NSW 2440
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.
