As part of last month’s Earth Week celebrations, students and staff at the Long Beach Island Elementary School in Surf City initiated two new programs – the New Jersey Air Quality Flag Program and the Ocean County Igloo Recycling Project – in addition to artwork and tree plantings to mark both Earth Day and Arbor Day.

The roll-out of the flag program, which utilizes brightly-colored flags to notify residents about outdoor air quality conditions, also coincides with the state’s Air Quality…