Recycle Your Old Mobiles with First National

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First National Real Estate JM Chase is calling on local residents of the City of Whitehorse to recycle their old mobiles, batteries, accessories and chargers by dropping them off in their local branch.

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The First National Real Estate network today announced that customers will be able to drop off their old mobile phones, batteries, accessories and chargers for recycling at their local First National real estate.   As an extension to its energy efficiency and sustainability drive, First National has partnered with MobileMuster, the official recycling program of the mobile phone industry to support its Old phones, more trees campaign.

‘Old phones, more trees’ is a joint initiative between MobileMuster and Landcare Australia, to collect more than 250,000 handsets and plant up to 25,000 seedlings to regenerate Australia’s coastline between now and 30 September.

“By collecting and recycling our old phones and those of our local community, we will be helping plant more trees along our coastline and protecting our environment,” First National Real Estate JM Chase Managing Director, Jee Chin, said.

Mr Chin said as leaders in the real estate industry, First National Real Estate JM Chase also wanted to take the lead on matters affecting the Whitehorse community in which they live and work.

“We pride ourselves on giving back to our community and this is just another way for us to do that,” Mr Chin said.

“As a business that is so reliant on both mobile phones and cars, we felt we should do our small part to help reduce our carbon footprint.”

According to Rose Read, MobileMuster Manager, Recycling, Australians have about 19 million old and unused mobile phones sitting at home.

“The greenhouse gases that could be avoided if Australians recycled their old, unused phones would be the same as planting 100,000 trees or taking more than 6,000 cars off the road,” Ms Read said.

If all the unused or broken mobile phones hidden in desks and drawers across Australia were handed in, including those of Mr Jee Chin’s own staff,  they could be recycled to produce 185,000 plastic fence posts, enough to build a fence from Melbourne to Sydney.

Since it began in 1999, MobileMuster has collected 806 tonnes of old mobile phones, batteries and accessories, recycling over 90 per cent of the materials in them and keeping these mobiles out of landfill.

To find your nearest First National / MobileMuster collection point for mobile phone recycling go to www.mobilemuster.com.au or call 1300 730 070.

For further information contact Rose Read, Manager Recycling, MobileMuster, on (02) 8920 3555 or 0418 216 364