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 Ballarat
927 Sturt Street
Ballarat VIC 3350
Anz Bank Ballarat East
81 Bridge Street Mall
Ballarat VIC 3350
Battery World - Ballarat
107 Mai Road
Ballarat VIC 3350
Bettatech Communications P/l
408 Skipton Street
Ballarat VIC 3350
Crazy Johns Wendouree Village
Wendouree Village Shop Centre
Ballarat VIC 3350
Optus World - Ballarat
76 Bridge Mall
Ballarat VIC 3350
Telstra Shop - Ballarat
Cnr Bridge Mall & Peel Street
Ballarat VIC 3350
Central Highlands Regional Library Corporation- Delivery
178 Doveton Street North
Ballarat VIC 3350
Central Highlands Regional Library Corporation - Ballarat Library
178 Doveton Street North
Ballarat VIC 3350
Fone Booth
Bridge Mall
92 Peel Street
Ballarat VIC 3350
Cartridge World - Ballarat
1213A Sturt Street
Ballarat VIC 3350
Anz Bank Wendouree
1233 Howitt Street
Wendouree VIC 3355
Telstra Shop - Wendouree
Stockland Wendouree
Gillies Street
Wendouree VIC 3355
Central Highlands Regional Library Corporation - Wendouree Library
Shopping Centre
Gillies Street
Wendouree VIC 3355
Harvey Norman - Ballarat
Cnr Howatt & Gillies Street
Ballarat VIC 3355
Telechoice Ballarat
Wendouree Stockland Shopping Centre
Cnr Norman and Gillies Street
Wendouree NSW 3355
Central Highlands Regional Library Corporation - Sebastopol Library
Albert Street
Sebastopol VIC 3356
Central Highlands Regional Library Corporation - Creswick Library
Albert Street
Creswick VIC 3363
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.
