As an organization, the Garden Club of Long Beach Island prides itself on focusing not just on green thumbs, but on various environmental issues as well.

At a luncheon meeting last month, the club launched the “The Recycling Hero” – a visual image of the multitude of items now on the recycling list in Ocean County. Created by the environmental committee of the club, the “hero” is a head-to-toe outfit of recyclable materials, making it interesting and fun as well as educational, said Gillian…