User talk:Lauren Peoples

Covanta Energy Corporation talk:About

Editing Content on Wiki Page
I am an employee at Covanta Energy and we are looking to add information to our Wiki page from our website. Are we able to do this and if so, how do we go about citing that information.

Lauren Peoples (talk) 15:46, 23 January 2012 (UTC)Lauren
 * I think Conflict of interest is the main thing you have to watch out for. It is not your Wiki page, and any attempt to treat it as though it was would be looked down upon by other editors. . . Mean as custard (talk) 18:09, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Welcome
Hello, Lauren Peoples, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I notice that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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Proof-reading Revised Article
Covanta Energy Corporation talk:About

I have attempted to add information onto the Wiki page for Covanta Energy Corporation and have been having problems with the information not being neutral. It was suggested that I draft up an article and submit it to be proof-read. I am going to place the information below and if someone could proof-read it to make sure that it is acceptable content that would be great.

Lauren Peoples (talk) 16:31, 25 January 2012 (UTC)Lauren

Facilities operated by Covanta produce electricity for approximately one million homes in communities across North America by converting municipal solid waste into renewable energy. The company’s operations offset the production of approximately 20 million tons of carbon dioxide annually by producing electricity without utilizing fossil-fuel and by diverting waste from landfills. The energy-from-waste process also includes the extraction of ferrous (steel) and non-ferrous (aluminum etc.) metals either before or after the combustion process. Approximately 400,000tons of ferrous steel and non-ferrous metals are extracted annually for recycling, thereby avoiding the mining and production activities associated with the production of a similar amount of virgin metals. The

Understand Energy-from-Waste (EfW)

EfW is a component of the waste hierarchy which identifies five waste management activities in descending order of preference. According to the U.S Environmental Protection Agency, the preferred activity is waste reduction; the least desirable is landfill disposal [ citation: http://www.epa.gov/wastes/nonhaz/municipal/wte/nonhaz.htm]. After “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle”, the fourth "R" represents the RECOVERY of energy from residual waste, which is preferred over landfill disposal (the last tier in the waste hierarchy.) Using waste as a fuel, energy-from-waste technology recovers energy from residual waste to generate renewable energy.

Repost: Proofreading Revised Article
Covanta Energy Corporation talk:About

I am reposting material I would like proofread by an editor that I posted a few weeks ago but I have not received a response yet.

I have attempted to add information onto the Wiki page for Covanta Energy Corporation and have been having problems with the information not being neutral. It was suggested that I draft up an article and submit it to be proof-read. I am going to place the information below and if someone could proof-read it to make sure that it is acceptable content that would be great.

Facilities operated by Covanta produce electricity for approximately one million homes in communities across North America by converting municipal solid waste into renewable energy. The company’s operations offset the production of approximately 20 million tons of carbon dioxide annually by producing electricity without utilizing fossil-fuel and by diverting waste from landfills. The energy-from-waste process also includes the extraction of ferrous (steel) and non-ferrous (aluminum etc.) metals either before or after the combustion process. Approximately 400,000tons of ferrous steel and non-ferrous metals are extracted annually for recycling, thereby avoiding the mining and production activities associated with the production of a similar amount of virgin metals. The

Understand Energy-from-Waste (EfW)

EfW is a component of the waste hierarchy which identifies five waste management activities in descending order of preference. According to the U.S Environmental Protection Agency, the preferred activity is waste reduction; the least desirable is landfill disposal [ citation: http://www.epa.gov/wastes/nonhaz/municipal/wte/nonhaz.htm]. After “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle”, the fourth "R" represents the RECOVERY of energy from residual waste, which is preferred over landfill disposal (the last tier in the waste hierarchy.) Using waste as a fuel, energy-from-waste technology recovers energy from residual waste to generate renewable energy.

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Lauren Peoples (talk) 15:06, 7 February 2012 (UTC)Lauren