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:

Telstra Licensed Shop - Cannonvale

70 Main Street
Cannonvale QLD 4800

Bowen Shire Council - Collinsville Office

Cnr Stanley & Conway Street
Collinsville QLD 4804

Bowen Shire Council

67 Herbert Street
Bowen QLD 4805

Bowen Shire Council - Library

67 Herbert Street
Bowen QLD 4805

St Colman’s School

Eleventh Avenue
Home Hill QLD 4806

Burdekin Shire Council

145 Young Street
Ayr QLD 4807

Delta Electrix- Ayr

East End Centre
Parker Street
Ayr QLD 4807

Nq Phone House - Ayr

Burdekin Centre
96 Queen Street
Ayr QLD 4807

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.