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• Never skip a stand.
• Can be configured for specific waste types.
• Better selection of trucks.
• No technical office required.
The only requirement is that all stands need a road connection.
First, as you said, it mandates the trash bins be connected to a road. Roads waste lots of space in a city.
Then there's the issue that once the truck has collected any amount of one type of trash, it will visit every single stand on the line trying to find more of that type of trash. So you might need 4 garabge trucks to maximise chance that they will pick up each kind of trash.
Also, because it's a line, they're not visiting the most full trash first, it could work out that there's an overflowing trash on the last stop, but by time trucks get there they're already full, so now you need even more trucks on the line.
Additionally, you will have to constantly update the line as more trash bins are added to the city.
And, finally, because the trucks are constantly on the move, they will obviously need repairing more often. Not to mention additional traffic load on the city.
As for better selection of trucks, I'm not sure what you mean. But even if that were the case, why can't the Tech Services (TS) office accommodate that?
The main benefit of a TS is that it frees time for the player to focus on other stuff.
Assuming they have space, garbage trucks on a line will empty a specific waste bin regardless of whether it is full or not, so these bins have time to accumulate waste while the truck does another run for the other wastes.
The technical office will happily send out a truck to collect a ton of plastic waste, see that the other plastics bins are only at half a ton, conclude none of them need pickup, and then have the truck return to return to the TO after driving to the waste disposal center. Then later all when all of the other plastics bins call for pickup at once, the TO will not have enough trucks to collect from them all before some start overflowing.
The overall trash generation rate doesn't change if you sort it or not, so the required number of trucks comes down to how well you can set up their line or technical office. Trucks on a line get better throughput because they spend most of their time driving between stands, while technical offices need to have trucks take suboptimal routes at best.
How often do you add trash bins to a city, let alone a district or town? I would argue about as often as new bus stops, so you would only be adding/adjusting lines every now and then.
Or you could have them wait at the trash bins or facilities with the highest trash generation rate. There is no difference in having them wait there or at a technical office, except that you paid extra for the technical office.
You also have the issue where the garbage truck has to go to and from the technical office to waste stands and the disposal center. While the trucks on a line only go to the waste stands and the waste disposal center.
The small bin trucks have a much wider range of stats than the large stand trucks, namely smaller and very cheap trucks, like the GZ-53m and Ifa W50, and larger, faster trucks like the Rmn 12-215 and Model P.
For lines, you can select trucks suited for the required throughputs of the lines you set up, like a small cheap truck just for handling hazardous waste from hospitals so you don't accidentally contaminate an entire storage of mixed waste, or a large truck to collect all the mixed waste of a town and drive it to a long ways to a waste disposal center.
Technical offices are not very good at dispatching their trucks, they can only hold so many trucks, and players usually want them to service industries (heating/power plants, treatment plants, etc.) with large stands too, so they typically only get large stand trucks. Even if you give them small bin trucks, there isn't any way to make them fill large trucks like the Rmn 12-215 close to capacity or not send them on low amounts better suited to small trucks like the GZ-53m.
Sure, but that's hardly an advantage when compared to the cost and build time of the technical office, the bugs associated with them (like contaminating an entire dump with hazardous waste), and the inefficiencies in the use of the trucks.
The real advantage of technical offices for waste, is that one technical office slot can back up the nearby lines' bins, which gives you some leeway if you miscalculated a line's throughput, or if the trucks need repairs or fuel. The rest of the TO slots can be spent on snowplows, and no more technical offices are required.
As for selection of trucks, I meant that it should be possible to assign specific trucks in the TS to only pick up specific types of waste. That way, I don't have 3 trucks going for mixed waste while my plastic waste stays full.
We still need snowplows so parking spaces would not unused. (snow clearing will even be a little more effective if you place technical offices in different places in the city)
That's actually a pretty good idea!!! Thanks!
Most of this is about a setup of your own - for example the only thing producing a hazardous waste in a city is a clinic/hospital, so these two buildings gets specifically large containers, so big trucks will empty it right away without it polluting the rest of the "waste yard". You do not need many small garbage trucks in city TS, so that one can easily be small one with just a water truck as a reserve, 2 garbage trucks and 2 snoploughs. And you got everything covered. Due to small driving distances your trucks are perfectly ok and if you need, you can replace the water truck with extra garbage one and you are perfectly safe.
Also I tend to not overdo sorting near houses, as most of it can easily be sorted out ar general separation and my city containers thus consists of only few biowaste containers (6-7) and rest is mixed waste -> it is not too big of a loss for sorting it only in separation plant; I would even dare to say it is more economically viable, as less trucks are spending fuel on their ways.
Garbage collection stands, both small and big will not pollute if hazardous waste is stored in dedicated HW containers, but they will pollute if the HW is stored in the Mixed Waste bins. The latter case is indicated when the Mixed Waste bins become greenish. The way to "fix" this is to convert those bins into HW dedicated bins.
Transfer storage works the same way, as long as the HW is stored in dedicated HW containers, it will not pollute, but it will if it gets into Mixed Waste containers.
Regular dumps will pollute in any case.
It's not really a bug. What happens is that you have a garbage stand, say, around a hospital. You have 2 bins dedicated to HW. If at any point, those 2 bins get full, then the hospital has no choice but to store the HW in the Mixed Waste bins, thererfore, infecting them (they'll become greenish).
It's very important to have timely garbage collection so that the HW bins don't overfill.
To not risk it, I always use the big container stands for hospitals (or any other industry which produces HW), simply because big container collection is sooooooo much more reliable than small container collection.