Make Money with Waste

[TheBlackob™]

Every time a new production facility hits the game, I want to try a new save which focuses on having said industry to make money.
While expensive to setup and run (buy chemicals) I did the same with the aluminium plants successfully for example.
But I have a hard time getting the waste facilities to the same result, mostly due to the speed I can purchase waste.

Buying mixed waste at the border with the large waste trucks is decently fast (per vehicle) but they cannot provide enough trash for it to work (bottleneck being the border house blocking all other traffic if one vehicle is moving) and trains take way to long to load.
I tried with a ~600 ton capacity train, but it stays at the border for nearly a month at a time until its full. Way to long to make this work in any way.

Has anyone found a setup that can provide enough money from trash to be in the black, without any other industry supporting it via export?

[EL-Xatrix]

if you try to import trash check out some mods, there are trucks with much higher capacity, that at least should reduce the traffic at the border, also found a ship to transport waste.
seen alot of people just import and burn hazard waste, get payed to import and you can filter out metal and construction waste after it for reprozessing or selling

[Polkovnik Berezin]

Importing waste is not intended to be profitable for the most part because it isn't. Waste is intended rather as something to manage and which, if done well, can help you be more efficient.

[nekys]

i suppose the atrocious rate of loading/unloading trash at the border is there to prevent any money exploits

[EL-Xatrix]

probably, also the treatment of hazard waste is kinda slow and not that cheap and if you burn it it makes quite alot of pollution. the other waste dosnt make much money.
might be ok if you have the buildings to get some for some extra recycled plastic or steel you dont need to import at the start but that depends on your research...

[nekys]

just burn it for power and then export the power as well. However, trying to fuel an energy plant with hazardous waste for use in the republic is a wasted effort. At anything beyond 10% usage it burns through the waste real fast and also produces a ton of waste itself

[Nationality]

Importing hazardous waste was heavily nerfed. You could run an economy just importing waste, but with the most recent builds it doesn't work as it should.
That hasn't stopped me from basically using hazardous waste like a bank (importing tons of the stuff and putting it in dumps to deal with once I have the money) but actually treating it isn't profitable.