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 Ivanhoe

182 Upper Heidelberg Road
Ivanhoe VIC 3079

Fusion Store

241 Lower Heidelberg
East Ivanhoe VIC 3079

Cartridge World - Ivanhoe

27 Ivanhoe Parade
Ivanhoe VIC 3079

Banyule City Council - Ivanhoe Office

275 Upper Heidelberg Road
Ivanhoe VIC 3079

Anz Bank Bundoora

33 Plenty Road
Bundoora VIC 3083

Anz Bank Heidelberg

Warringal Shopping Centre
56 Burgundy Street
Heidelberg VIC 3084

Banyule City Council - Rosanna Office

44 Turnham Avenue
Rosanna VIC 3084

3 Shop Greensborough

Greensborough Plaza
25 Main Street
Greensborough VIC 3088

Anz Bank Greensborough

45 Main Street
Greensborough VIC 3088

Crazy Johns Greensborough

54 Main Street
Greensborough VIC 3088

Fone Zone - Greensborough

Greensborough Plaza
25 Main St
Greensborough VIC 3088

Optus World - Greensborough

Greensborough Plaza
25 Main Street
Greensborough VIC 3088

Telstra Shop - Greensborough

Greensborough Plaza
25 Main Street
Greensborough VIC 3088

Vodafone - Greensborough

Greensborough Plaza
Greensborough VIC 3088

Allphones - Greensborough

Greensborough Plaza
Main Street
Greensborough VIC 3088

Telechoice - Greensborough

Greensborough Plaza
25 Main Street
Greensborough VIC 3088

Cartridge World - Greensbourgh

60 Main Street
Greensbourgh VIC 3088

Harvey Norman - Greensborough

25 Main Street
Greensborough VIC 3088

Anz Bank Eltham

950 Main Road
Eltham VIC 3095

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.