in brief A new initiative dubbed "Old Phones, New Trees" will see a new native tree planted for every mobile recycled until the end of June.
The campaign is a partnership between not-for-profit group Landcare and MobileMuster, the official recycling program for the Australian Mobile Telecommunication Association (AMTA).
According to MobileMuster's Web site, phones can be dropped off at 1,900 locations throughout Australia including mobile phone retailers Telstra, Optus, Vodafone, 3 Mobile, Virgin Mobile, Crazy Johns, FoneZone, Allphones as well as 160 councils and participating Sydney Credit Union and ANZ branches.
In a statement, AMTA recycling program manager Rose Read said it was "vital that these mobiles are recycled and don't end up in landfill where small amounts of potentially hazardous substances such as lead or cadmium could be released into the environment."
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cilstr
10/06/2007 07:35 PM
and here I WAS about to send my phones to the western dogies- they were going to get $15 for each phone... will it cost $!5 to plant a tree?? WHat sort of tree?? Will it be endemic to that area? and hey what area ARE they going to replant? eh? eh? eh?
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cilstr
10/06/2007 07:42 PM
and here I WAS about to send my phones to the western dogies- they were going to get $15 for each phone... will it cost $!5 to plant a tree?? WHat sort of tree?? Will it be endemic to that area? and hey what area ARE they going to replant? eh? eh? eh?
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btur
24/06/2007 11:53 AM
As well as Mobiles can you drop off the old unused landline phones ?
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