HORNSBY Shire acknowledged as the top mobile phone recycler for its seventh year.

Annually, MobileMuster presents the Top Collector Award at the state and national level. The award acknowledges which local councils have collected the most phone components from its residents in their effort to recycle.

Hornsby Shire took the crown as residents recycled 688kgs of unwanted mobile phones and accessories over the recent 12-month period. These statistics were found to be 47 per cent higher than the next council, and 13 per cent of total council collections across Australia. Around 6250 phones were collected, which avoided 2 tonnes of co2 emissions.

‘Yet again I need to extend my thanks to our community for their tireless commitment to recycling and their enthusiasm for the services we offer at our Community Recycling Centre at Thornleigh,’ says Hornsby Shire Mayor, Philip Ruddock AO.

MobileMuster is a primary stewardship program in the telecommunications space, recycling 95 per cent of the material found in old phones and phone accessories. With this, new products are manufactured, reducing the need for aluminium, copper, gold, silver, cobalt, and lithium.

‘Hornsby Shire’s residents should be proud of their seventh Top Collector Award win,’ says CEO of the Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association and MobileMuster, Louise Hyland. ‘We are grateful for their ongoing commitment to greener, more sustainable mobile consumption.’