Bayswater toddler loves picking up rubbish at outer east parks

Little Bayswater litter warrior Hunter is proving it’s never too early to love where you live. This is how he’s improving his local parks — one green bag at a time.

Emilly Sonsie with son Hunter, who loves cleaning up rubbish at the park. Picture Andrew Tauber

Little Bayswater litter warrior Hunter is proving it’s never too early to love where you live.

Every day the one-year-old is on a mission to pick up rubbish left behind by people in parks and playgrounds, with his young mum Emilly Sonsie at the ready with her green bag.

Ms Sonsie said anytime Hunter, who enjoys the task, sees rubbish he points frantically at it saying “bin, bin”.

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The young mum has a green bag on the side of her pram so the pair can collect litter along their walk.

“One day I thought, ‘someone should pick it up’ and then I thought, ‘I am someone’,” Ms Sonsie said.

Hunter is now obsessed with making sure the pair clean up along the creek in Bayswater, but knows not to pick up cigarette butts.

Hunter helps clean up Bayswater.

Knox environmentalist Darren Wallace said Hunter should be given an award.

“I think it’s extraordinary that someone so young could be so passionate and he should be encouraged,” Mr Wallace said.

Knox Mayor Jake Keogh said he thanked and congratulated Hunter for being so conscientious in picking up litter.

“At the tender age of one, he sets an example that many adults would do well to follow,” Cr Keogh said.

“Well done Hunter and keep up the good work.”

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