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:
Battery World - Beenleigh
Mitre 10 Mega Centre Ship
204 Main St
Beenleigh QLD 4207
Gold Coast City Council - Beenleigh Transfer Station
Beaudesert Road
Beenleigh QLD 4207
Gold Coast City Council - Staplyton Landfill
Rossmans Road
Stapylton QLD 4207
Telstra Shop - Beenleigh
Beenleigh Market Place
George St
Beenleigh QLD 4207
Allphones - Beenleigh
Beenleigh Marketplace
114 George Street
Beenleigh QLD 4207
The Phone Inn
Beenleigh Market Place
George Street
Beenleigh QLD 4207
Cartridge World -beenleigh
62 George St
Beenleigh QLD 4207
Gold Coast City Council - Delivery
Southport Road
Nerang QLD 4211
South East Telecommunications - Carrara
130 Plateau Crescent
Carrara QLD 4211
Mr Mobile - Nerang
Centro Nerang
57 Station St
Nerang QLD 4211
Telstra Kiosk - Jimboomba
Colonial Village Shopping Centre
Cusack Lane
Jimboomba QLD 4280
Telstra Shop - Beaudesert
Beaudesert Central
141 Brisbane Street
Beaudesert QLD 4285
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.
