School District Green Team
Every May, the town holds an Earth Day festival called “Leonia Day.” And every year, members of this small, 1,000-home town flock to Wood Park to enjoy a spring day outside with their neighbors. Leonia Day offers many free components: a […]
Food scraps and yard waste together currently make up about 30 percent of what Americans throw away. But here in Leonia, we don’t have to be part of that statistic! Leonia’s DPW collects yard waste every Monday from March through […]
With dedicated recycling stations for milk and juice containers in cafeterias and recycling bins for paper and commingled containers in each classroom, Leonia has started a new era of recycling in our schools. Families, support your students! Students, tell your […]
Thanks to the efforts of the Green Team, the support of the Girl Scouts and the community, and a $10,000 grant from New Jersey Education Association’s Sustainable Jersey for Schools, Leonia’s Anna C. Scott Elementary School stopped using Styrofoam cafeteria […]
Many families don’t know that we can now recycle plastic film in Leonia. To promote awareness and generate excitement about this new capability, the Green Team is sponsoring a Plastic Bag Challenge in the schools. Each school (ACS, LMS & […]
The Leonia Middle School (LMS) has been conducting an Annual Wellness Fair for the past several years. Students from LMS attend the fair during the school day and participate in various work stations learning about different way to improve their […]
As the Leonia School District bus fleet ages, new replacements will be required at a rate of approximately three buses per year over the next several years. The Leonia Board of Education has chosen to phase out diesel, joining the […]
Orange juice cartons go with the paper, but paper coffee cups go in the trash! It’s not always obvious what items get recycled, or which category they go into for recycling. For example: milk and juice cartons are actually made […]
In 2018, the Leonia School District was awarded a $10,000 NJEA Sustainable Jersey grant as well as a $5,000 grant from the Carton Council. The District used a portion of these funds to purchase and implement a paper-carton recycling station […]
On January 22nd, 2019, the Leonia Board of Education celebrated the passing of its anti-idling resolution. The resolution was the result of conversations between Board members, the Green Team, the district’s Director of Buildings and Grounds and Superintendent. The […]