 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 grants 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
- Post in your old mobiles, including batteries, chargers and accessories now using the free post reply paid mailing label or
- Drop 'em off at your local MobileMuster collection point
Why Recycle?
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 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.
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