Environment

Spring in Sydney means warmer afternoons, longer days, flowers appearing everywhere… and the occasional WHOOSH above your head. Yes, swooping season is back. For adults, being swooped by a magpie can be startling. For a child walking or riding to school alone, it can be genuinely frightening — particularly if they don’t understand why it’s happening or what they’re supposed to do. The good news is that most magpies don’t swoop people at all, and those that do aren’t being mean or hunting humans for sport. They’re being very protective parents. So rather than teaching kids to be frightened of…

Keeping the Eastern Suburbs cleaner just got easier with new Return and Earn bin baskets now appearing in some of the area’s busiest public spaces. Funded by the NSW Government, the new recycling baskets sit alongside public garbage bins and give locals a simple way to recycle eligible drink containers while out and about. Instead of throwing bottles and cans into general waste, residents can now place them directly into the baskets so they can be collected and redeemed through the Return and Earn scheme. The initiative aims to reduce litter across local streets, parks, shopping villages and harbour foreshore…