GreenPlastics:Contribute

From Green Plastics

We are actively seeking your help.

Do you represent (or just know a lot about) a company that makes green plastics or green plastic products?

Do you know some science that you would like to share with others?

Do you see a page that you think you could improve, by adding information or making it more clear than it is right now?

Please create an account, and contribute whatever you can. Together we can make this an important and useful resource for students and professionals alike who want to learn more about green plastics, and their impact on business, the economy, consumers, and the environment.

You must log in to edit a page

Once you are logged in, you will see an "edit" tab above any page on the site. Click that tab and you will be able to make any changes you like; however, all changes will be recorded in the "history" tab, and your name will be attached to those changes. So edit responsibly!

This is not an encyclopedia

This site is a beginner's reference point for people wanting to learn about green plastics. Please make sure your articles are relevant to green plastics, whether from the perspective of science, politics, business, or retail industry. It must be relevant, and it must be straight-forward. Accessibility is more important than thoroughness.

Please remember these tips:

• Keep your tone conversational (e.g. see the Introduction and overview for an example of accessible writing). There are enough sites out there cluttered with jargon, or written by and for grad students and professors.
• Keep article lengths short, as much as possible. Try to break up large topics in a sensible way, referring to many sub-articles from a main article on a complex topic (e.g. see the green plastics article for an example).
• Be specific and concrete, but keep the technical detail in technical articles and out of general information articles. Remember that the audience is students and professionals who may not be experts in the field. If you feel there is technical information that is important to include, move it to its own section closer to the bottom of the article, and keep the opening section of the article conversational and non-technical.
• You may advertise, but don't spam! You may create articles for specific green plastics products or companies that manufacture or make use of green plastics. However, keep these articles written within the guidelines, do not make multiple copies of the articles in order to place them in multiple pages on the site, do not redirect pages to those articles inappropriately, and do not modify unrelated pages to link to or refer to those articles. Any of these things will get your article removed from the site entirely.

Good luck, have fun, and we appreciate your contributions. If you have any questions at all, please feel free to contact us.

Please be aware of citation and copyrights

If you are planning on contributing to this website, OR if you are planning on citing information from this website in a paper that you are writing, please make sure to look at our Copyrights Page. It includes some very important information, including the fact that you absolutely should not be citing a website as an authoritative source in any paper. You can find some alternative suggestions for what to do on that page.