page_title: Coventry
section_title: Waste management
hierarchical_section_title: Coventry / Economy / Waste management
caption_attribution_description: Coventry City Centre, at night
context_page_description: Coventry is a city, administrative centre and metropolitan borough in England and the United Kingdom. It is built on the River Sherbourne, which remains largely hidden by infrastructure, although it can be seen by the canal. Coventry has been a large settlement for centuries, although it was not founded and given its city status until the Middle Ages; since then it has been one of the most important and largest cities of the country. The conurbation consists of the Coventry and Bedworth Urban Area, being the 20th largest in the country; the city is governed by Coventry City Council.
  Historically part of Warwickshire, at the 2011 census Coventry had a population of 316,915, making it the 9th largest city in England and the 11th largest in the United Kingdom. It is the second largest city in the West Midlands region, after Birmingham, and is separated from the West Midlands conurbation by the Meriden Gap.
  Coventry is 19 miles east-southeast of Birmingham, 25 miles southwest of Leicester, 11 miles north of Warwick and 94 miles northwest of London.
context_section_description: Coventry has an energy from waste incinerator which burns rubbish from both Coventry and Solihull, producing electricity for the National Grid and some hot water that is used locally through the Heatline project. Rubbish is still put into landfill.
  Many areas of Coventry have kerb-side plastic, metal (tins and cans), and paper recycling. Garden-green rubbish is collected and composted.
  Waste materials can be taken to the recycling depot, which is adjacent to the incineration unit.
  There are recycling points throughout the city for paper, glass recycling and metal / tin can recycling.
  In October 2006, Coventry City Council signed the Nottingham Declaration, joining 130 other UK councils in committing to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of the council and to help the local community do the same.
caption: The city centre at night, seen in April 2013
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