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:

Optus World - Ipswich

Ipswich City Mall
Nicholas St
Ipswich QLD 4305

Telechoice Brassall

68 Hunter Street
Brassall QLD 4305

Telstra Shop - Ipswich

Ipswich City Square
Nicholas Street
Ipswich QLD 4305

Vodafone - Ipswich

Cnr The Terrace & Pine Street
North Ipswich QLD 4305

Allphones - Ipswich

Ipswich Riverlink Shopping Centre
Cnr The Terrace & Downs Street
Ipswich QLD 4305

Cartridge World -ipswich

87 Brisbane Street
Ipswich QLD 4305

Boonah Shire Council

70 High Street
Boonah QLD 4310

Telstra Kiosk - Boonah

High Street
Boonah QLD 4310

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.