Talk:Covanta

Campaign for Justice website

The recently added link to the Campaign for Justice website is not relevant to the article. An agreement was reached in 2010 with the UWUA - http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/covanta-semass-and-local-369-of-the-uwua-announce-ratification-of-a-collective-bargaining-agreement-and-settlement-of-outstanding-disputes-91928219.html

The link should at least be explained if not deleted. Thank you.

--Jregan17 (talk) 16:00, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

I agree and since no one has defended the link, I'll delete it. --Bruce Hall (talk) 04:54, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

Incinerators or "energy-to-waste"

"Energy-to-waste" seems to be a euphemism for "incinerators" and therefore I'll add in word "incinerators"--Bruce Hall (talk) 04:54, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

Indeed. I notice their official company profile also mentions "incinerators", but anyway we need to use understandable terms and not just company jargon. --Nemo 04:29, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

Emission standards

The article has some financial data and some stories about emission problems, but no data on emissions. Isn't there an official source for emission data (or other technical standards) of USA incinerators? It would be useful to get a sense of what kind of plants the company runs. --Nemo 04:29, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

Proposed rewrite

I am the Communications Manager at Covanta. I would like to share a proposed rewrite of the current page, so that independent, impartial editors have an opportunity to review the draft and provide any feedback in accordance with best practices.

The current pages has very little encyclopedic information about our history and focuses almost exclusively on a one-sided description of the debate around environmental issues. While I am not the best person to improve the page due to my conflict of interest, I believe the draft represents a vastly superior page that is more well-rounded, complete, and summarizes competing views.

Hopefully the draft will be a launching point to a more encyclopedic page that will continue to improve with the help of disinterested editors. Pinging @Guy Macon: who I saw listed on WikiProject Cooperation as someone interested in engineering articles. NKR2009 (talk) 18:22, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

I will try to take a look at it this evening.

In the meantime, could you please double check your citations? I took a quick look and noticed that the citation after "The press release also stated that the DEEP consulted with the Connecticut Department of Public Health and verified that despite the violation, the amount of emissions in the air in the vicinity of the facility was still within applicable health-based standards and did not pose a threat to public health." leads to a p[age that says "The requested article is no longer published." --Guy Macon (talk) 19:53, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

Hi @Guy Macon:. Thanks for offering to take a look! I think you’ll find the proposed draft is much better cited than the current page. To clarify, the poorly-cited sentence you are referring to is from the current page, not the draft I shared. My understanding is that press releases generally aren’t allowed as references anyway. NKR2009 (talk) 21:09, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

Oops! put them side by side and got confused as to which was which. (Note to self: next time, smoke crack after editing Wikipedia...) --Guy Macon (talk) 22:10, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

Requested move 15 April 2020

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Moved to "Covanta" buidhe 20:25, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

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Covanta Energy → Covanta Holding Corporation – This is the name they use on their official website. Guy Macon (talk) 23:16, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

This is a contested technical request. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:29, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

• @Guy Macon and Ahecht: Queried move request Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:30, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
• @Guy Macon: Most of the website just uses "Covanta", which seems to be the WP:COMMONNAME elsewhere on the web as well (excluding stock-market-specific news sources, which I eliminate by searching "covanta -cva"). --Ahecht (TALK
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Except that it conflicts with:

Coventa Inc information technology & services: coventa.ca

Coventa refuse services in Pittsfield, MA

Coventa real estate in Belgium: www.coventa.be

Coventa financial advisory and management services in Switzerland

The song Coventa [1]

Normally I would be OK with naming it Coventa and creating a disambiguation page for the others, but none of the above have Wikipedia pages. --Guy Macon (talk) 00:29, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

Is "Coventa" really so similar to "Covanta"? Nemo 10:32, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

Well, this is embarrassing. When I first posted the rename request I searched for Coventa, not realizing I had spelled it incorrectly, and decided to add "Holding Corporation" in case one of the others became notable. Then I made the same spelling error when I replied above. :( "Covanta" is fine. Nobody else seems to be using that word. (Note to self: next time, smoke crack AFTER editing Wikipedia...) --Guy Macon (talk) 12:52, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

Ah, ok. That's fine! :) Nemo 15:56, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

Also, I think the Coventa you found in Pittsfield is just a misspelling of this company. Covanta Holding Corporation (which makes energy from refuse) does run a garbage incineration plant in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 20:15, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

• Move to Covanta per WP:COMMONNAME. Beagel (talk) 13:51, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

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