Recycle Your Mobile Phone
For many people, a mobile phone is a must have item and it is common for people to upgrade their phones every 12 to 18 months. Only around 4% of Australians recycle their phones meaning there are an awful lot of phones lying around unused. In fact, it’s estimated that around 12 million phones are stored in cupboards and draws for no reason.
Mobile Muster is Australia’s biggest mobile phone recycler having already recycled more than 350 tonnes of mobile phones. Here are a number of reasons why you might want to recycle your old mobile phone:
- prevent pollution and protect our environment
- minimise solid and hazardous waste going to landfill
- recover resources to manufacture new products
- reduce the need to use raw materials and save our natural resources
Around 90% of a mobile phone can be reused to create a new product so why not dust off your old phone which is no longer being used and recycle it? Mobiles can be recycled and used in new items such as:
- batteries
- jewellery
- fences
- pallets
- other plastic or metal products
A list of retailers where you can drop of your unwanted phones can be found on the Mobile Muster website. It costs nothing to you or the retailer and as there are many drop off points around the country, it is easy to recycle your mobile phone.
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