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:

Bega Valley Shire Council

Vingel Place
Bega NSW 2550

Wykes Retravision

70 Gipps Street
Bega NSW 2550

Bega Valley Shire Council - Bega Library

Vingel Place
Bega NSW 2550

Bega Valley Shire Council - Bermagui Library

Bermagui Library
Young Street
Bermagui NSW 2550

Bega Valley Shire Council - Bermagui Branch Office

14 Young Street
Bermagui NSW 2550

Bega Valley Shire Council - Eden Library

Eden Gateway Shopping Centre
Cnr Imlay & Mitchell Streets
Eden NSW 2550

Bega Valley Shire Council - Eden Branch Office

Community Centre
116 Imlay Street
Eden NSW 2550

Bega Valley Shire Council - Merimbula Library

Main Street
Merimbula NSW 2550

Bega Valley Shire Council - Merimbula Branch Office

103 Main Street
Merimbula NSW 2550

Telechoice - Sapphire Coast

199 Carp Street
Bega NSW 2550

Tafe - Bega

Barrack Street
Bega NSW 2550

Cooma-monaro Shire Council

81 Commissioner Street
Cooma NSW 2630

Cooma-monaro Shire Council - Cooma Landfill

8448 Monaro Highway
Cooma NSW 2630

Cooma-monaro Shire Council - Numeralla Transfer Station

2086 Numeralla Road
Numeralla NSW 2630

Tafe - Cooma

66 Commissioner Street
Cooma NSW 2630

Cooma-monaro Shire Council - Nimmitabel Transfer Station

52 Warrtegal Corner Road
Nimmitabel NSW 2631

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.