Mobile musters
Help MobileMuster and Landcare give Australia’s iconic coastline a helping hand by simply recycling your old mobile phones, batteries, chargers and accessories.
The ‘Old phones, more trees’ campaign will run from World Environment Day on 5 June to 30 September 2011. MobileMuster aims to collect 250,000 handsets and provide up to 25 grants of $2,000 each to Landcare and Coastcare groups around Australia.
The funding provided through ‘Old phones, more trees’ will enable 25 Landcare and Coastcare groups to maintain and protect our coastline through dune restoration, revegetation, weed management and the protection of vital coastal habitats
How to Recycle?
Place them in the Mobile Muster collection box located behind reception at Council Chambers or any of the locations around the Shire. Click here for the closest collection point to you.
What is Landcare?
Across Australia, volunteer Landcare and Coastcare groups undertake vital work to maintain and protect the coastline including, dune restoration, revegetation, weed management and protection of coastal habitat.
Recycling 250,000 old mobiles plus their batteries and chargers will recover enough materials to make 48,000 aluminium cans and more than 2,400 plastic fence posts. Recovery of these materials will also avoid the need to mine more than 728 tonnes of gold ore, 808 tonnes of silver ore and 178 tonnes of copper sulphide.
Since 2007 the ‘Old phones, more trees’ campaign has enabled Landcare groups to plant more than 255,000 trees across Australia and recycle more than 149,000 kilograms of mobile phones and accessories.
MobileMuster is calling on Australians to round up their old and unused mobiles, batteries, chargers and accessories to achieve two great environmental outcomes.
What happens to your old phone?
There are more than 16 million old and broken mobile phones in Australia in homes that are no longer used. Recycling old mobiles with MobileMuster can recover 90 per cent of materials, which can be used to make stainless steel items, plastic fence posts, jewellery and new batteries.
Recycling an old mobile phone is free and easy, simply:
- Drop off - hand them in at your mobile phone retailer / MobileMuster local collection point
Public Drop Off Points around the Wyong Shire area include Council's Customer Contact Centres and Libraries or go to www.mobilemuster.com.au or call 1300 730 070
- Post - post them in by either picking up a free MobileMuster recycling satchel from Australia Post, National Pharmacies or printing off a reply paid mailing label from http://www.mobilemuster.com.au/
- Your local school - run a mobile muster at school by participating in the 2011 MobileMuster Schools Recycling Challenge, register online at www.mobilemuster.com.au