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Giving Mobile Phones

There are more than 21 million mobile phone subscribers in Australia, and we upgrade or exchange our mobile phones every 18 to 24 months.

So it's not surprising that, according to The Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association, 70% of mobile phone users have at least one old mobile phone tucked away in a drawer at home.

Only 6% of people recycled their old mobile phones in 2008, even though a whopping 90% of the materials in a mobile phone can be recovered and used as raw materials for new products.

Recycling mobile phones helps:

• 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

To find your nearest mobile phone recycling outlet and learn more about recycling your old phones, check out

• Mobile Muster
• Mobile Phone Recycling