Too much waste

[123]

Please lower how much waster the buildings make. Iv'e barely got a thousand people and my three dumps are full, my incinerator is full, i have export waste because even after its burned it fills up the five dumpster in the incinerator plant, its a never ending cycle. I feel like burning i doesn't even reduce the waste, it just makes more mixed waste.

[GoRun]

Burning reduces waste to half and export is needed. What do you have in mixed waste? Which industry makes so much waste?

[melkij]

What is the composition of the garbage? Metals and construction waste do not burn as expected.

[EL-Xatrix]

not sure where you got all that waste from, maybe you got some mod wich produces too much? do you import extra waste? do you seperate? what is in your waste? if its mostly construction waste from some mine, yeah that stuff dosnt burn, same goes for metal.

i got around 2k with some basic industry and only have 1 waste truck keeping almost all bins empty, sometime a second one drives out and i supply my waste mangement area with one minibus for workers as they just sit around and wait for trash to work with most of the time...

[karel2501]

That is kinda the point of the whole mechanic - to learn the ways you can reduce the sheer volume of your waste. Incenerators and separation facilities aren't there to get rid of it, but they are there to reduce the volume, to make storing it manageable.

Even a small incenerator can reduce most of your regular citizen-produced trash to 1/10th of it's original volume very fast, if it's overloaded at 1000 people, you probably have a problem with how the output is being handled. Keep in mind that residue waste from an incenerator directly is extremely inefficient, to a point where it's what bottlenecks the incenerator's efficiency.
Make a loading bay (transfer facility, it's under the waste options) directly connected to the incenerator via factory-connection, and order your waste trucks to pick it up from there. This will make the process of getting rid of the residue waste after burning MUCH faster, and will allow your incenerator to operate at FAR higher speed.

Also, if you feel overwhelmed, consider downloading the "Big garbage dump" by Robs074 in the workshop. They will give you massive landfills that can take in a LOT of trash, allow both speedy loading AND unloading, and have factory connections so that in the future, you can connect a sorting or burning facility to them to shift through the trash.

It's a little cheat-y, but you can use it as you please. I use them mostly for "realism" sake, because in reality, socialist regimes did mostly just dump all their trash into landfills instead of bothering to recycle them.

[123]

Thanks for the input guys. Guess I have to figure out how to separate it and do the loading bay thing.