SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVES
Go Green with the Lisle Park District!
The Gift of PLAY Shared Around the World
The Lisle Park District proudly partners with Kids Around the World to repurpose playground equipment in countries around the world. They focus on bringing commercial-grade playgrounds to places where families gather and play, in order to bring the gift of play to more children across the globe. Play opens doors, drops barriers, expands minds, and heals wounds. These benefits are often what is needed most in places where the brokenness of this world hits kids the hardest through child labor and exploitation, neighborhood violence and war, or the limited resources available to children living in deep poverty. By strategically integrating play into areas of need, seeds of hope take deeper root and the opportunity for genuine harvest is realized.
THE PROCESS: Kids Around the World volunteers come and remove the equipment with our assistance. We give them all the instruction manuals and any extra parts we have to go with it. Then, the harvested playgrounds are refurbished at their warehouses and made ready for years and years of future play for a fraction of the cost of a new playground. Then, they put it in a container and ship it to its new location where they are installed with volunteer power.
WHERE OUR PLAYGROUNDS HAVE BEEN INSTALLED: We have donated a total of 14 playgrounds which have been installed in Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Kenya, Mexico, and Sierra Leone.
We Need Your Help Keeping Our Parks Beautiful
Blue recycling containers are placed next to the trash containers at most of our athletic fields. You can recycle plastic, aluminum and glass in the same container. Please keep trash separate.
Please Note: Trash receptacles in the parks are intended for park generated refuse only. With a lot of regularity, these receptacles are used for homeowner and business generated garbage, and when this happens, more often than not, it results in overflowing and/or extremely heavy trash bags for our limited staff members to remove. Additionally, this is in violation of the Lisle Park District Conduct Ordinance, and violators are subject to a fine. Let’s work together and help keep our parks staff working on beautification and improvements rather than disposing of personal trash.
Bypass Landfills by Recycling Your Unwanted Textiles
Take advantage of our Green City Recycler dropbox located in the Lisle Community Center parking lot, 1825 Short Street in Lisle. We accept clothing, shoes, household linens, belts, purses, hats, and toys. Through our efforts, we hope to reduce the millions of pounds of textile waste finding its way to the local landfill.
Put Your Unwanted Crayons Back Into the Hands of Creative Individuals
Crayons are a petroleum product that take many years to biodegrade. Lisle Park District recycles unwanted, rejected, broken crayons into new crayons, keeping thousands of pounds out of the landfills and back into the creative hands of individuals. The recycled crayons will be melted down and turned into new crayons. Recycle your crayons in our crayon recycling bin located at the Lisle Recreation Center Front Desk, 1925 Ohio Street in Lisle.
Recycle Your Unwanted Vinyl Banners So They Can Be Turned Into Pet Products
Do you have vinyl banners that you plan to toss in the garbage? GreenLine Pet Supply repurposes vinyl event banners into pet products and keeps them out of the landfill. Simply drop off your vinyl banners at the Lisle Recreation Center Front Desk and help us save them from being tossed in the trash.
Enjoy Our Earth Friendly Parks
The Lisle Park District will maintain 4 parks with natural and organic products. This means we will manage the lawns with no synthetic pesticides providing alternative recreational space for those concerned about the impacts of pesticides on people and pets. While you may see a few weeds, the turf and soil will become healthier in the long term.
To ensure availability to all, one park with its own unique factors has been selected for each region of the district. We have started organically managing the following four parks:
- Abbeywood Park (SW) 2211 Abbeywood Drive, Lisle
- Connelly Memorial Park (NE) 933 Lacey Avenue, Lisle
- Leask Lane Park (NW) 4 S. 281 Leask Lane, Lisle
- Oak Hill Park (Central) 5460 Ranier Drive, Lisle
For More Information
Dan Garvy
Director of Parks & Recreation
630-353-4310
dgarvy@lisleparkdistrict.org
Lisle Park District received the Jane Foulser Habitat Award for The Oak Regeneration Project from the DuPage Monarch Project
Young oak trees will soon be popping up in Lisle parks thanks to the Lisle Park District’s Oak Tree Regenerative Project. Oaks support hundreds of beneficial insects and including more trees is part of Lisle Park District’s pollinator recovery plan. The DuPage Monarch Project is pleased to announce Lisle Park District has received the 2022 Jane Foulser Habitat Award for undertaking an innovative, multi-year project of germinating hundreds of acorns and planting young oak trees throughout their parks in the next several years.
We are proud to support the mission of DuPage Monarch Project: Communities Protecting Pollinators to increase healthy habitats for pollinators, like monarch butterflies, throughout our community! The vanishing monarch butterfly needs more milkweed to survive. Cities, villages, park districts, gardeners and residents in DuPage County are creating beautiful gardens with milkweed to save them. Find out how you can help and learn more about the DuPage Monarch Project by watching this short video - you might even spot a fimilar face and park here in town!