Possible workaround for too much trash

[Soron]

Hi, some of you may have the issue that you have to build 6-8 Incineration plants in a city while in another 2-3 were enough.

Im not sure if this is map related but i have a possible workaround.
If you dont use a landfill and only incineration plants this bug might happen.

What i found out in my case is that this seems to be related to the Storage capacity. As incineration plants have at start low storage i buld more and more now 7 at a 65k city and they were still full. But as i build 3 additional storage expansions on 4 of them i could disable the other 4 again. There seems to be a fixed amount of trash floating in the city which has to be stored before burnt in the plants as just increasing the amount of garbageprocessing somehow doesnt seem to work.

Also create districts and assign the plants to those so they dont take external trash to burn.

Check if increasing the storage capabilities help in your case too. i havent checked if a landfill would also help, havent tested that as an inteermediate storage facility.

[Aieonae]

Yup that’s a secure solution there having district really restrict overstretching garbage trucks and hearses which can break cities budget rather easily… all because they got struck in traffic for years due to a traffic accident…

[sethtriggs]

My issue is that now I'm not getting any vehicles dispatched from my facilities, so I think something else might've broken.

[Soron]

Yes that was also my issue when the storage is full. Also it didnt looked like they are processing the waste until i have excess storage again. Then the Garbage trucks rolled out again.

[Joanna Hammond]

I've tried all these things and it don't work. As you are probably aware there is a confirmed bug where incinerators clone garbage instead of incinerating it. I tried to delete them all and replace with many many recyclers but I cannot delete my final incinerator plant. It just refuses to do it, click confirm and it just remains.

[BingoBango]

Obviously if it's full trucks ain't gonna pick up garbage.

[Switchinzski]

Originally posted by BingoBango:

Obviously if it's full trucks ain't gonna pick up garbage.

An what if they r empty, whats the cause of it not functioning properly

[WaKKO151]

If it was obvious why did you say it? The idea that because some people are not having this problem that it does not exist has to stop. Just look into it and fix it. If you ignore the problem its going to pile up like the trash in my city.

I have a town with 30 thousand people. I have 10 incinerator plants, a couple of recycling centers. Tons of storage. I have a district. I have all my garbage related buildings assigned to a district that covers my whole city. Then any of the buildings get full on garbage they stop picking it up. When they process enough garbage to not fill up the storage a truck goes out and picks up garbage. But before it even gets back to the garbage facility it came from the garbage has already over flowed again. If its not a problem for you then why are you here?

[BingoBango]

I'm here because I've seen the problem. Happened to me because I let garbage get out of control... and I know that's why it's happening to you, you LET garbage get out of control didnt just happen all of a sudden. This game takes a long time to sort out those issues. If you truly have enough incineration capacity+ it will resolve itself but it will take a he'll of a long time. Fully upgrade your extra storage and they will continue to pick up garbage. Luckily there is an actual bug in the game that just let's you delete garbage.... do that when it does fill up. Restart the process again until it's sorted. Most importantly... don't let it happen again.

[RubenGjo]

I have problem with garbage myself. No matter how many landfil, or incineration plants or recycling centers I place, the garbage just pills up anyway. I tried in one city with 5 of each, with a population of just 50k. Do not know what to do....

[Scaristotle]

What is working for me is to draw a mini district around the landfill structure. Then I set those districts to the incinerators. The incinerators will draw form the landfills and the landfills will draw from the city.

[Zengrath]

Originally posted by Scaristotle:

What is working for me is to draw a mini district around the landfill structure. Then I set those districts to the incinerators. The incinerators will draw form the landfills and the landfills will draw from the city.

Really? That's great to know. I thought they would only pull from landfill if I set landfill to emptying but then the trucks no longer take garbage from the city. this is how it used to work in city skylines 1.

so in city skylines 2 if I have enough incinerators that exceed the amount of garbage produced in my city, then based on your advice, my landfill will slowly empty over time, not just from the .5 a month but from incinerators taking garbage from landfill. sadly I can't just move my landfill to incinerators as it would take a massive amount of time to empty it to move it. but i'll try building another one near my incinerators and set my old one to empty to test this out.

As far as OP goes. I do think city skylines 2 seems to have way too much garbage being produced, it just doesn't feel balanced at all and landfills won't cut it. And cost to deal with it with incinerators is insanely high, like double or triple the cost of any other service in the city. I don't know if this is how real life works, if in real life cities #1 expense is garbage but while it likely is a high cost I doubt it far exceeds cost of other services.

The plus side is that you can sell all that electric back. So in my city I am spending something like 700k a month in garbage services yet making 400k in sold electricity so overall my costs 300k a month in total. I do wonder though if one day they fix garbage in a patch and suddenly it all runs out and I am no longer making enough power haha.