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 Newington

Newington Technology Park
Ave of the Americas
Newington NSW 2127

Optus Service Centre - Silverwater

Slough Business Park
Cnr Silverwater Road & Holker St
Silverwater NSW 2128

Grays (nsw) Pty Limited

Lidcombe Business Park
29 Birnie Avenue
Lidcombe NSW 2141

Cartridge World - Lidcombe

42-44 Railway Street
Lidcombe NSW 2141

Telstra Repair Centre - Regents Park

Block U
391 Park Road
Regents Park NSW 2143

Accord Customer Care Solutions - Auburn

199 Parramatta Road
Auburn NSW 2144

Anz Bank Auburn

28 Auburn Road
Auburn NSW 2144

Unifone

128-136 South Parade
Auburn NSW 2144

Harvey Norman Computers - Auburn

250 Parramatta Road
Auburn NSW 2144

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.