Publication Date: 06/12/2015

The Wheaton Park District Supports Healthy Air!

You may start seeing these signs around the Wheaton Park District. School and Community Assistance for Recycling and Composting Education, or SCARCE, was awarded a Community Needs Grant of the DuPage Foundation to improve air quality in DuPage County. With the help of the DuPage County Department of Transportation, SCARCE made 200 “No Idle Zone  – Healthy Air = Healthy  Kids” signs and donated the signs to facilities serving children, such as schools, libraries, and park districts.  The Wheaton Park District was a recipient of 12 of these important and educational signs to help support our existing efforts at improving air quality.

Why Promote Anti-Idling?

  • Asthma increases as a result of car exhaust (American Lung Association).
  • Idling cars and buses create fumes that can be asthma triggers.
  • Fumes are toxic pollutants and probably human carcinogens.
  • Idling wastes fuel and money.

For more information, visit scarce.org.

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