Victoria’s students from Glen Waverley South Primary School have proved they are Australia’s future eco warriors after beating more than 400 schools and handing in 97kg of mobile phones and accessories for recycling, to become the national winner of the 2009 MobileMuster ‘Old Phones, New Fence Posts’ Schools Recycling Challenge.

Handsets become Fence Posts

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• 53% of Australians kept their previous mobile phone even if it wasn't working (up from 50% in Feb 08 and up from 42% in March 2005)
• 16% gave away their previous mobile phone to either family or friends (down from 19% in Feb 08 and down from 18% in March 2005)
• 9% said they were still using their previous mobile phone (up from 7% in 2008 and up from 4% in March 2005)
• 1% traded in their previous mobile (no change from Feb 08, down from 4% in March 2005)
• 1% donated to charity (no change since March 2005)

• 9% recycled their previous mobile phone (up from 6% in Feb 08 and 4% in March 2005)
• 2% threw out their previous mobile phone (down from 4% in Feb 08 and 9% in March 2005)
• 4% of people lost stolen (same as Feb 08 and down from 8% in March 2005)
• 5% unknown

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Written by Suze Chalmers