Mobile phones and accessories
Mobile phones and accessories must not go in your household bins.
Disposal options
- Give to a friend, donate to charity or sell online.
- Drop off for free at MobileMuster collection points across the ACT or pick up a free MobileMuster satchel available from your nearest AusPost outlet. Mobile Muster also offers advice on deleting data from phones to allow for resale
- Donate to GIVIT which seeks phones for refurbishment to pass on to charities in need
- Return phones and phone accessories to your local mobile phone retailer for recycling
- Working phones can be donated to DV Safe Phone to become safe phones for domestic violence survivors
- Drop off mobile phones with embedded batteries for free at:
- For disposal of commercial quantities contact:
Why?
Mobile phones are considered hazardous waste and have the potential to harm humans or the environment. They contain many valuable materials including glass, aluminium, gold, silver and copper that can be extracted for reuse. This results in fewer raw materials extracted from the earth. Mobile Muster can recover 99% of materials found in your mobile phone.
Related items
This may include mobile phones; mobile phone batteries; flip-phones; wireless phones; smart phones.