CutCommunityHeroes: An educator by day and community organizer by … other parts of the day, AnneLiese Zausner-Mannes brings Kindergarten-teacher enthusiasm to reducing waste
Photo: Janice Chung Anneliese Zausner-Mannes is standing at the front of a rapidly forming line, greeting dogs by name and thanking everyone for their patience. The air is pungent. It’s 10:45 on a Sunday morning: rush hour for the compost drop-off site she runs on the southwest corner of Prospect Park in Brooklyn. A volunteer is wheeling giant Toters full of compost scraps to a pickup truck one block over. Someone else is bringing empty Toters in to be filled.
Photo: Janice Chung A year-and-a-half-plus later, here we are, under a big tent outside the park set up by volunteers every Sunday morning. The compost operation now involves a rigorous, maximum-efficiency system to keep people moving quickly and to make sure the scraps aren’t contaminated with non-compostable items. People show up with entire wagons full of supplies, stopping at each station to unload their waste while Zausner-Mannes supervises.
Photo: Janice Chung 8:35 a.m. “We chalk the sidewalk, and someone writes our Instagram handle and Venmo on a board for people who walk by and ask what we’re doing. We set up the table for the free fridge. Early mornings are pretty chill.” Photos: Janice Chung. Photos: Janice Chung. 9:30 a.m. “I start talking about crackers with Greta, a new volunteer who joined in the past few months. I recently helped someone clean out their basement, and they had a big bag of yarn that Greta was super-happy to take. She surprised me with crackers that she baked and then I tried to make her crackers in return and they came out horribly.”9:55 a.m. “I remember that Elena texted earlier.
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