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 - Bendigo

Bendigo Marketplace
161 Mitchell Street
Bendigo VIC 3550

Optus World - Bendigo

15 Mitchell St
Bendigo VIC 3550

Telstra Shop - Bendigo

11 Mitchell St
Bendigo VIC 3550

Vodafone - Bendigo

47 Mitchell Street
Bendigo VIC 3550

Allphones - Bendigo

Bendigo Marketplace
116 Mitchell Street
Bendigo VIC 3550

Cartridge World - Bendigo

300A High Street
Bendigo VIC 3550

Cartridge World - Strathdale

Strath Hill Shopping Centre
Condon Street
Strathdale VIC 3550

Harvey Norman - Kanagaroo Flat

Cnr High & Furness Streets
Kangaroo Flat VIC 3555

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.