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:
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 Post Shop
25 Vale Street
Cooma NSW 2630
Australia Post Cooma North Lpo
Shop 3 Cooma North Shopping Centre
Binalong Street
Cooma NSW 2630
Normanville Catchment Resource Centre
Shop 3
50 Main Road
Normanville SA 5204
Australia Post Normanville Lpo
85 Main Street
Normanville SA 5204
Australia Post Delamere Lpo
The Delamere Store & Po
Main Road
Delamere SA 5204
Australia Post Truro Lpo
38 Moorundie St
Truro SA 5356
Regional Council Of Goyder - Eudunda
25 Bruce Street
Eudunda SA 5374
Australia Post Eudunda Lpo
9 Gunn Street
Eudunda SA 5374
Australia Post Robertstown Lpo
11 Commercial Street
Robertstown SA 5381
Australia Post Saddleworth Lpo
18 Belvidere Road
Saddleworth SA 5413
Regional Council Of Goyder - Burra
1 Market Square
Burra SA 5417
Australia Post Booborowie Lpo
25 Sixth Street
Booborowie SA 5417
Australia Post Burra Lpo
6 Commercial Street
Burra SA 5417
Australia Post Terowie Lpo
Lot 36
Main Street
Terowie SA 5421
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.
