Waste Separation Help

[dr_rockzo]

So, I built a General Separation plant, and for some reason the workers aren't separating the garbage. None of the plants output storage is full. It says the plant isn't able to store more mixed waste, but I don't understand why that's stopping them from working. Isn't the whole point, to have garbage to sort?

[Phoenix]

Your typical garbage composition has more than 50% of non-recyclable components which should go somewhere. That processed mixed waste is, by volume, the biggest product the plant produces. So of course, if there's no place to store it anymore, the work stops, just like with any other factory/product.

[Stele]

It also has export mixed garbage storage. Isn't it full?

[dr_rockzo]

I gotcha, makes sense. So do I need to export the leftovers or is there something else I can do with it? It's still called mixed waste, but surely I can't just send it through again.

[Phoenix]

Originally posted by dr_rockzo:

I gotcha, makes sense. So do I need to export the leftovers or is there something else I can do with it? It's still called mixed waste, but surely I can't just send it through again.

Typically, people export it or burn it in incinerators to be processed into ash which can slowly decay while stored in dumps. There's, indeed, no sense to process it again - you can easily tell that by hovering the cursor over mixed waste and checking its composition.

[Beast of War]

The general waste separation has several internal storages that should be emptied either by trucks or by conveyor belts or factory connections. You should check none of them are full.

Construction waste and metal scrap can leave the building via - a single shared if you wish - conveyor belt or truck. The internal mixed waste can leave the building via a factory connection. Either to a dump where it can be picked up by trucks - or more practical - by a next building that further processes waste. And at the end of that link an incinerator. That also needs an exit for mixed waste, that now consists of ash. Plastic waste can be picked up by a truck. Somehow it does not travel via a factoryu connection to an attached dump, likely you need a forklift connection for that.

You can mouse over mixed waste in the building menu, truck menu or waste bin menu and see what it consists of, what materials are still in it. This determines through which separator buildings it should go. Most of us make a chain of separator buildings linked by factory connections with at the end of it an incinerator and a dump for ash, which needs to be sold off or spread to the wind. ( it "disappears" at a slow rate, a strange game feature as that ash is environmental very hazardous )

When the workers do not get drinking water they usually do little either, and that the building does not work without power is obvious.