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:
Gawler Mobile Phones P/l
Todd Street
Gawler SA 5118
Allphones - Northpark
Northpark Shopping Centre
264 Main North Road
Prospect SA 5118
Allphones - Gawler
140 Murray Street
Gawler SA 5118
Leading Edge Telecommunications - Gawlor
118 Murray Street
Gawler SA 5118
Cartridge World - Gawler
71 Murray Street
Gawler SA 5118
Newell Communications
48 Bridge Street
Murray Bridge SA 5253
Telstra Shop - Murray Bridge
19 Adelaide Rd
Murray Bridge SA 5253
Allphones - Murray Bridge
Centro Bridge Plaza Shopping Centre
Cnr Swanport & Riverview Road
Murray Bridge SA 5253
Cartridge World - Murray Bridge
Seventh Street
Murray Bridge SA 5253
Office National Barossa
9 Railway Terrace
Nurioopta SA 5355
Network Communications - Nuriootpa
33 Murray Street
Nuriootpa SA 5355
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.
