Waste Separation Export

[Talon]

Is there a way to speed up loading at the waste separation plant or export the waste to a place it can be loaded faster? My waste separator is constantly backed up because of how long it takes to load the separated waste into trucks so it can be taken to the recycling plants

[MrKrabs]

Stand by. I will provide a screen shot soon.

[MrKrabs]

Here is the drop off from one city.
The DO above take containers directly and take them to the sorting facility.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3004897719

They drop it off here where it´s sorted and burnt.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3004897595

[Sirius Czech]

Why do you have a dropoff zone? TS in my city drops directly at those big container stands (where they already sort it) and trose big container trucks from DO just come, load pretty fast at the same container storage and they go and throw it to their target, aka
- sorted (for now) unusable waste is exported to customs (metal, plastic and such scrap),
- construction waste is already delivered to special storage near its recycling plant
- hazardous waste goes DIRECTLY to incinerator plant (to prioduce electricity)
- biowaste is transported to composting plant/farm dropoffs, and
- mixed waste is dropped DIRECTLY at a dump plateau (or what is it in-game english name) connected wia factory connection to separation plant, which draws it automatically in, sort that thing inside and what is left goes via another garbage-plateau (not containers!) through two factory connections to that incinerator listed above.

Works perfectly and on the outcome of incinerator I have larger dump with claw to load (pretty fast) to separate DO that transport ashes to dumps nearby, where is slowly degrades by itself.

The only "flaw" of this system is that you need a separate truck (or build another container stands) for people from separation plant and the incinerator (and probably send that waste directly to incinerator anyway).

I have no idea why you have built unloading stations connected to container stands, as yes - plain waste loading from dumps without a claw/via factory connections is really slow.

But there is generally no need for such workaround

[MrKrabs]

I had a jam when the trucks unloaded directly into the sorting plant.
That prevented my jail trucks to unload workers.
Later on I expect more trucks and even a train to come here.

[MrKrabs]

Beside your description I rather see a few screen shots.
Can you post some?

[Figure 11 Target]

Are the separated waste types causing issues with loading slowly one or more of Metal scrap, Aluminium Scrap, or Construction Waste?

They're stored in internal aggregate storages in the separation plants, and are best removed from the building by using the aggregate conveyor connection, even if it is as simple as connecting a aggregate loading station directly to the plant.

[MrKrabs]

I do that as well. It sends the scrap strait to the scrap yard to make steel.

[Andragon]

For me the loading speed is the biggest problem with waste. My way of playing this game also plays into this as I see my pleasure not to start from scrap but build beautiful maps that are self suficient. I have managed to do a 50k map with 6 cities and the waste management is running ok but it takes a lot. The industry trash is overwhelming. My steel town e.g. runs 2 coal mines and 3 iron mines with 1 steel plant. I need to run 3 garbage trains that constantly empty a train waste yard and carry the stuff to 2 sorting plants and 2 incinerators and I probably need more as the sorting plants cannot handle all of it and I use a train distribution to carry stuff to the border when it clogs up.
Now I am trying to manange the fertilizer and I actually need to add a new border point to my map to do so as the train loading of fertilzer and unloading of ash and excess trash clogs up the border connections.
This is probably not a huge problem when you play this game starting from scratch but using it as a giant model railway world it does pose a big challenge

[Andragon]

Originally posted by jan.mitiska:

Why do you have a dropoff zone? TS in my city drops directly at those big container stands (where they already sort it) and trose big container trucks from DO just come, load pretty fast at the same container storage and they go and throw it to their target....

Well this works for one city but if you run a country like me with 12 cities and 120k+ citizens this won't cut it. I only handle normal, hazard and bio waste in the containers.

I need to drop off the trash near the city, have a distribution centre transport it to a train waste site between multiple cities and transport it by train to a recycling town dedicated to waste handling.

The way to do it is the one Mr Krabs showed in the first picture as it is the fastest and the least clog up way as loading and unloading is done at different spots. Just don't ever think to load over the factory connect as it would be snails speed. Just unload at the loading bay and unload directly form the container wastesite
The second pic does not apply to me as I use trains but for smaller installments this is fastest too

[Sirius Czech]

Originally posted by MrKrabs:

Beside your description I rather see a few screen shots.
Can you post some?

Trying this
EDIT - original screenshot didn´t work, but you can see it in my video here on time 12:49, hope it helps and stay here
https://youtu.be/i1dy6lY4rSw?t=769

Legend:
left area - separation plant (actually no waste dump on the start) -> small dump -> incinerator to power -> dump with claw

right area "starting setup" - dump for mixed waste -> incinerator -> dump with claw

Current setup - I tend to import more hazardous waste to "old" incinerator and then I send via DO ashes to separation plant to sort it out and let it go through "new" setup (separation+incinerator power plant).

No need for huge loading stations

[Karosieben]

Originally posted by MrKrabs:

Here is the drop off from one city.
The DO above take containers directly and take them to the sorting facility.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3004897719

They drop it off here where it´s sorted and burnt.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3004897595

This setup actually blew my mind. I didn’t knew, what this container stands were for.

Thank you for that

[MrKrabs]

Thanks for the feedback. 😊

[Comrade Sky]

I would sort after burning. Burn the plastic, collect the metals

[Kapibara]

how can I speed up the loading and unloading of garbage at customs, trains take months to fill up and this greatly hinders me, I haven't found any mods, and I'm not good at digging game files.

[Sirius Czech]

Originally posted by Kapibara:

how can I speed up the loading and unloading of garbage at customs, trains take months to fill up and this greatly hinders me, I haven't found any mods, and I'm not good at digging game files.

You cannot speed this up, you are suppose to dispose of your own waste IN republic by utilising separation plants and incinerators and turning majority of the stuff to ash, which spreads by air over time by itself, no need to export it. Only exports sort-of needed long term are gravel/construction waste.