Recycling Mobile Phones in Australia

In Australia, the Mobile Phone Industry Recycling Program accepts all unwanted phones, batteries and accessories for recycling. You can drop your unwanted phones off at most major mobile phone retailers. Look for the logo on mobile phone shop fronts.

During the phone recycling process, plastics, gold, copper and other precious materials are collected. Nickel and cadmium are also extracted, by grinding phone batteries into small pieces and feeding them into a special furnace. This burns the plastic and allows the metals to be collected and cooled.

Since 1999, approximately 30 tonnes of mobile phones, batteries and accessories have been collected for recycling in Australia – that’s enough to fill a small suburban house!

Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association, 2002.

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