Long Branch Green Team

12/04/2025

Help keep Long Branch GREEN this holiday season.

The Green Team is hosting a styrofoam collection day this coming Sunday, December 7, from 9 to noon to the Long Branch Community Pool. All styrofoam collected will be recycled! See you there.

11/10/2025

If you're driving down Avenel Boulevard, look for the recently installed rain garden between Lenna Conrow and JMF elementary schools. The garden was planted on Friday, October 10. Organized by the Green Team, the effort came together with the Long Branch Environmental Commission which provided funding, Long Branch School District which provided the site and did all the site preparation work, and the Friends of Jackson Woods who, together with a volunteer group organized by Earthshare NJ, designed, planted and mulched the garden. City DPW helped deliver supplies and water the new plantings. The elementary students later added painted rocks for a finishing touch. The garden contains over 80 plants that will help filter runoff from hard surfaces around the schools and clean the water flowing into the stream that flows into the park, a part of the Manahasset Creek watershed.

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11/09/2025

Do you ever wonder if something should go in the recycle bin or trash? We sure do. To help answer these quiestions, check out our recently launched "Recyclopedia" recycling tips like these in the city's email blast and on social media.

Recyclopedia Weekly Waste Wisdom: A Long Branch Green Team Recycling Education Initiative
Coffee Lovers: Cardboard sleeves & plastic lids from cups can be recycled. Paper coffee cups are coated with plastic and cannot be recycled.

11/09/2025

A big shout out to Shivali Sethi and her Carbon Roots organization that partnered with Friends of Jackson Woods to create a Carbon Sink Garden in the park. Shivali has since worked with other municipalities on similar initiativies -- read more below and check out her garden at Jackson Woods, Long Branch, NJ.

10/20/2025

Help us earn a new Trex bench for the city by recycling your clean plastic film. Bread bags, produce bags, zip loc storage, dry cleaner bags, plastic packaging wrap, bubble wrap, etc. all accepted. Drop at Atlantic Ave Recycling facility by November 30th!

08/08/2025

Need new sports equipment this fall? Or do you have some you no longer use?

Check out this SPORTS SWAP at Fair Haven Fields on Saturday, September 27. Everything is FREE!

07/21/2025

Congratulations to Long Branch's own Doggie Sweets on being named one of America's coolest pet shops! Check out this article on their national recognition.

Doggie Sweets is also one of Long Branch's certified Green Businesses -- local businesses that demonstrate a commitment to operating sustainably.

The Long Branch Green Team is super excited for our friends at Doggie Sweets! Check them out at their location right on the boardwalk in Pier Village.

LONG BRANCH, NJ — Doggie Sweets, a vibrant and innovative pet boutique located on the Jersey Shore, has been recognized as one of America’s Coolest independent pet businesses by PETS+ magazine.The...

07/21/2025

In late September 2024, Dr. Chris Obropta of Rutgers Cooperative Extension Water Resources Program presented an educational workshop on the value of rain gardens. It ended by asking if people wanted a rain garden to be designed by Rutgers graduate landscape architects for free. Six people signed up and received a free rain garden design.

Later in the fall, several Green Team and Environmental Commission members and Rutgers-certified Green Infrastructure Champions helped one of these Long Branch residents build her rain garden. She continued to work on it this spring and shared these beautiful photos.

Here is the testimonial from this resident:
"Not “done” yet but just wanted to give you a quick update…. Even with all this rain, no water in my basement. The back garage seems to be much dryer as well. I had magnolia blooms but now the Black Eyed Susans are bloomin'"

If you would like a rain garden designed for your home, let us know!

04/27/2025

Thanks to everyone who came out to our Arbor Day event. Lots of support for our campaign for refillable bottle stations! Special thanks to local naturalist Gerry Lingner for teaching us all about trees and artists Dorsey & Rich Lucas for showcasing Jackson Woods' eclectic artistic elements. Also thanks to Beach Grille and Doggie Sweets -- two of Long Branch's Certified Green Businesses for supplying wonderful treats for both people and pups. We are excited to report we gave away all of our 150 baby trees...one way to restore the tree canopy here in Long Branch. Happy Planting Everyone!