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:

Kempsey Shire Council - Stuarts Point Library

Cnr Ocean Ave & Marine Parade
Stuarts Point NSW 2441

Micks Mobile Madness

15 Ridge Street
Nambucca Heads NSW 2448

Mick’s Mobile Madness

15 Ridge Street
Nambucca Heads NSW 2448

Coffs Harbour City Council

Cnr Coffs & Castle St
Coffs Harbour NSW 2450

Dick Smith Electronics Coffs Harbour

Max Murray Mall
20 Gordon Street
Coffs Harbour NSW 2450

Network Communications - Coffs Harbour

4 Moonee Street
Coffs Harbour NSW 2450

Optus World - Coffs Harbour

Park Beach Plaza
Pacific Highway
Coffs Harbour NSW 2450

Telstra Shop - Coffs Harbour

Park Beach Plaza 
Pacific Highway
Coffs Harbour NSW 2450

Coffs Harbour City Council - Marcia St Depot

Marcia Street
Coffs Harbour NSW 2450

Digitone Communications - Coffs Harbour

Park Beach Plaza
Coffs Harbour NSW 2450

Wow Sight & Sound Coffs Harbour

Home Central
2 Mastracolas Road
Coffs Harbour NSW 2450

Cartridge World - Coffs Harbour

95 Grafton Street
Coffs Harbour NSW 2450

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.