Mobile phone recycling
If you are upgrading or replacing your mobile phone in 2009, please recycle your old one.
Our mobile phone recycler, Aussie Recycling Program, is donating $3 per phone to the Jane Goodall Institute to protect endangered Gorillas in The Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Why? A key component of mobile phones and most electronic equipment is tantalum, which is extracted from a raw material known as coltan. Coltan is mined illegally in The Congo's forests, which are the habitat of the endangered lowland gorillas. Coltan is allegedly sold to fund the current conflict in The Congo.
By recycling your phone you will be reducing the demand for coltan mining as well as preventing many hazardous chemicals from entering landfill.
Phones can be placed in collection bins on Level 1 of the Borchardt Library, the Security and Parking office on Level 1 of Peribolos East or sent via internal mail to:
EnviroSMART
PE 102-104
Bundoora Campus