Garbage/ Incineration plant

[Tace]

How do I ensure that garbage is collected without putting an incineration plant right in the middle of my residential area?

[steventirey]

Garbage trucks travel quite a distance, same as all other service vehicles. They'll keep going until their capacity fills up; there isn't a set distance they work in. You don't need to place one in the middle of your housing area. As longs as you have enough capacity to collect it all (as shown in the garbage overlay in the upper left corner - it can be toggled with a button there or shows up when you have a garbage building selected in the bottom panel (such as when you click on it to build it). And as long as no one is complaining (a box appears above the building if there is a problem).

[OneJasonBradly]

These may help with understanding trash pick up. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2209941393
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2222321044
Garbage assets such as incinerators have no limit to their range. The asset in need of garbage pick up calls out to have its trashed picked up. They call the closest first until they find a trash asset that will come to retrieve the garbage.
In this clip all Garbage assets are across the river. There are many different incinerators that answer the call to this place. Those same assets, or the trucks from those assets arrive every time to collect the garbage.

[Ripp]

I don't recommend devoting a lot of time to worrying or dealing with a garbage system that prophesies to work or more to the point not work like the one in CS. As OJB has so kindly pointed out "The asset in need of garbage pick up calls out to have its trashed picked up". That means that at it's very best, even the closest facility is late and behind the game by the time it gets the call or has time to accept the call and dispatch a truck. No real live city would last long with such an inefficient garbage control system.

Suggest you find a way to convince citizens to deal with their own garbage or turn the whole thing over to a third party contractor. After all you did sign up to be the Mayor not the local garbage collector the the chief coroner/mortician.

[Tsubame ⭐]

1 - If your city is too large - 200k+ people - then it will hit vehicle limit and chances it will not spawn enough garbage trucks. You can use this mod to bypass this:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=529979180

2 - If size is not the problem, then traffic is. If the garbage trucks cannot reach the places to be served because of traffic issues, these places will have problems. You need to fix traffic on these places.

You can also use this mod to completely get rid of the need for garbage removal, if you so desire - IMO the quantity of services required to service a single city are unreasonably high - i.e. just for gameplay purposes - and do not even account for other things like exportation, so I do not consider this a exploit:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=769744928

[BettyB]

I look at PDGCRM as simply returning the management of city services back over to the local commissioners that are paid to do those jobs. That's how it works best in every large or small city and town in the country and in CS as well. There are lots of ways to make CS interesting and entertaining without having to employ a non functional, inefficient, unrealistic city service.

Wait for consumer(s) to call to say garbage is starting to pile up? In what country does that system seem to work? In what backward part of the civilized world are people so stupid they can not even imagine the possibility that garbage might build up at a somewhat predictable rate and manage to get a truck to circle by with some sort of reasonable regularity?

I get that some find the fine art of garbage collection rewarding and satisfying. I understand that for some there is a great feeling of accomplishment gained by figuring out how many incinerators, recycling centers and or crematoriums it takes to deal with all the local garbage and dead people. Personally, however, I am very glade that for us few with the rare goal of becoming something more than a garbage collector or a mortician PDGCRM makes the micro-management of these so called city services an option instead of an unavoidable distraction.

To OP:
Just follow OJB's example. Keep puffing those reclamation facilities down (Just out side your residential) until the trucks start getting there in time to prevent issues. As your city grows so must your collection services expand to meet demand.

JOPO

[John]

Give me realistic or give me
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=769744928&searchtext=Pollution+remover+Solution

[WhiteKnight77]

You can use this.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=409002171

[Ripp]

Asset page doesn't say. Does asset (RC) anticipate need to pic up garbage and send trucks on preset routes accordingly?

[WhiteKnight77]

Originally posted by Xeyeld:

Asset page doesn't say. Does asset (RC) anticipate need to pic up garbage and send trucks on preset routes accordingly?

To whom are you asking?