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:

Fone Zone - Ballina

Kerr Street
Ballina NSW 2478

Leading Edge - Ballina

9 Moon Street
Ballina NSW 2478

Telstra Shop - Ballina

Ballina Central
44 Pacific Highway
Ballina NSW 2478

Ballina Shire Council

Cnr Cherry & Tamar Streets
Ballina NSW 2478

Cartridge World - Ballina

15 Kerr Street
Ballina NSW 2478

Lismore Tafe

Library
Conway Street
Lismore NSW 2478

Caltex - Ballina East

2 Links Avenue
Ballina NSW 2478

Collect - Lennox Head

Byron Street
Lennox Head NSW 2478

Battery World - South Lismore

19 Three Chain Road
South Lismore NSW 2480

Fone Zone - Lismore

Shop 9 Lismore Shopping Square
McKenzie Street
Lismore NSW 2480

Lismore Phone & Car Audio

211 Keen Street
Lismore NSW 2480

Optus World - Lismore

Cnr Molesworth & Woodlark Streets
Lismore NSW 2480

Southern Cross University - Lismore Campus Student Representativecouncil

Goodman Place Southern Cross University
Military Rd
East Lismore NSW 2480

Telstra Shop - Lismore

57 Woodlark St
Lismore NSW 2480

Vodafone - Lismore

Lismore Shopping Square 
Cnr Brewster Street & Uralba Street
Lismore NSW 2480

Allphones - Lismore

Lismore Square
Cnr Brewster & Uralba Street
Lismore NSW 2480

Lismore City Council

Wyrallah Road Waste Facility
313 Wyrallah Road
Lismore NSW 2480

Lismore City Council - Administration Centre

43 Oliver Street
Goonellabah NSW 2480

Cartridge World - Lismore

75 Conway Street
Lismore NSW 2480

Caltex - Dawson Street

75 Dawson Street
Lismore NSW 2480

Caltex - Airport

Union & Three Chain Roads
Lismore NSW 2480

Collect - Woodlark Street

136 Woodlark Street
Lismore NSW 2480

Eagle Insurance Brokers

60 Centennial Circuit
Bryon Bay NSW 2481

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.