The number of phones being handed in for recycling has sky-rocketed in NSW and Victoria in the lead up to Telstra's shutdown of its CDMA network.
A new initiative dubbed "Old Phones, New Trees" will see a new native tree planted for every mobile recycled until the end of June.
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