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:

Bathurst Regional Council

158 Russell Street
Bathurst NSW 2795

Fone Zone - Bathurst

Stocklands Mall
121 Howick St
Bathurst NSW 2795

Telstra Shop - Bathurst

Bathurst Central Metro Plaza
William Street
Bathurst NSW 2795

Vodafone - Bathurst

Stockland Shop Centre
40 William St
Bathurst NSW 2795

Cartridge World - Bathurst

100 William Street
Bathurst NSW 2795

Central Tablelands Water

91 Adelaide Street
Blayney NSW 2799

Batteries & Bits

186 Anson St
Orange NSW 2800

Fone Zone - Orange

Orange City Centre
Summer St
Orange NSW 2800

Knet Technology Orange

202 Lords Place
Orange NSW 2800

Orange City Council

Civic Centre
Cnr Bung St & Lords Place
Orange NSW 2800

Telstra Shop - Orange

Metro Plaza 
227 Summer St
Orange NSW 2800

Cartridge World - Orange

223 Peisley Street
Orange NSW 2800

Cabonne Shire Council - Cargo Waste Disposal

West Street
Cargo NSW 2800

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.