Whole Earth Festival

Dear Vendors,

Last year, with cooperation from the vendors, the Whole Earth Festival volunteers managed to divert over 98% of ‘waste’ from the landfill. Through reducing, reusing, composting, and recycling, we succeeded in ensuring the Festival to be enjoyable to everyone and our mother Earth. Our success is dependent on your cooperation and participation in bringing products that are composed of recyclable or biodegradable content. Please make sure every pre-consumer product, such as containers and bags, are reusable, recyclable, or biodegradable. Below is a list of items that are NOT ACCEPTED at the Festival. These items cannot be recycled or composted (efficiently). Sadly, these items were generated by vendors last year and were sent to the local landfill.  Help us to achieve zero waste by following these guidelines:

• No STYROFOAM or POLYSTYRENE of any sort or any shape. (This includes, but not limited to, cups, clam shells, plates and packing materials)
• No WAXED PAPER products
• No PLASTICS other than #1 plastic (Polyethylene Terephthalate-PETE) or #2 plastic (High Density Polyethylene-HDPE)
• No PLASTIC UTENSILS
• No individually wrapped items; buying certain items in bulk may help prevent this type of waste
• No frozen beverage concentrate containers

When you do not bring these items, you are choosing to be an integral part in the success of running an absolute Zero Waste Festival!

Failure to comply with the above requirements may result in your company being charged an environmental fee.

If you have any questions please email us at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it and This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it We will be more than happy to answer any questions about compost and recycling, as well as offer additional strategies to reduce the amount of waste you may generate. Together we will mend our web for our mother Earth and future generations.

With much appreciation and happiness,

Crystal Huang and Danny Yadegar

Compost and Recycling Coordinators