The Whole Earth Reusables Cooperative (WERC) was formed for the 2002 Whole Earth Festival as one more step toward a waste-free ideal model of an ecologically sustainable event.  Through the cooperation of our volunteers, festival-goers, and, most importantly, food vendors, we hope to successfully eliminate the concept of disposability as a part of the Whole Earth Festival.  Reusing dishes directly reduces our contribution to the landfills, saves forests, prevents land/air/water pollution, and saves energy costs associated with shipping and manufacturing.  The program also gives the consumer a first-hand educational experience that connects them with their responsibility to the resources they consume.  

Here is how it works:

• When you purchase food from a vendor, pay a refundable deposit for your dish.   
• After finishing your meal, drop your dish(s) at one of the two refund booths and collect your deposit.

Hey everyone, the website for the Whole Earth Festival Dishes Crew (WERC) is up!  To sign up, please visit:

http://www.iotaphi.org/werc.php

1. Scroll down to the big headline that reads Sign up  and fill out your name, email address, and phone number.  Your email address is important because if you want to make changes later (like adding or dropping shifts) you'll use your email address to login.  Don't worry, your email and your phone number will be kept private.
2. After filling out your contact info, you can scroll down to sign up for different shifts throughout the day.  After picking what you want, scroll down until you see the "Submit" button.  Then just hit it and quit it, baby.  If you want to see what other people have signed up for, click on the name of the block you're interested in, or just scroll to the bottom of the page.
3. The times that we have the dish machine won't be finalized by Sodexho until Tuesday morning, so the times up there right now are tentative.  We'll have the actual times up there on Tuesday night; for now we're just looking for an idea of when you're available.

Attention

If you have any WERC (Whole Earth Reusables Cooperative) plates, cups, mugs, spoons, forks, or chopsticks that you accidentally took home from festivals past, or acquired by other means...please return them! You know what they look like...the lovely yellowy plates and those blue-gray mugs. Sure you're fond of them, and you've enjoyed them for a while, but WERC needs them back. We will be at the KP meeting this Wednesday,  starting at 6:30, to collect them.You can turn them in at the KP meetings or at the Festival. Thank you! Camille, Clint, & Nik,  Your 2008 WERC Coordinators.

Attention

If you have any WERC (Whole Earth Reusables Cooperative) plates, cups, mugs, spoons, forks, or chopsticks that you accidentally took home from festivals past, or acquired by other means...please return them! You know what they look like...the lovely yellowy plates and those blue-gray mugs. Sure you're fond of them, and you've enjoyed them for a while, but WERC needs them back. We will be at the KP meeting this Wednesday,  starting at 6:30, to collect them. You can turn them in at the KP meetings or at the Festival. Thank you! Camille, Clint, & Nik,  Your 2008 WERC Coordinators.