Make No Pollution

Get Earthloving City Achievement here.

General Setup with your current map

1. Have a current map with over 10,000 population but not more than 80,000 since it will be harder for you to re-zone Industry later on.
   
2. Make sure you have unlocked Incineration Plants and Offices.
   
3. Make sure you have a majority Educated residents to move forward.
   
4. Make sure your Industry zones are lower than your Offices.
   
5. Make sure you have lesser Landfills than your Incineration Plants.
   
6. Make sure you have your Water pump placed at the start of your water stream.
   
7. Make sure you have your Sewage pump placed at the end of your water stream.

Water Pollution to 0%

1. Move all your Water pump at the start of your water stream. (Where the water pointer arrow starts)
   
2. Move all your Sewage pump at the end of your water stream. (Where the water arrow points to)
   
3. Make sure their distance is way farther than each other.

Ground Pollution to 0%

1. Make sure you have 0% Water Pollution before you start doing this!
   
2. Start Un-Zoning your Industry and re-Zone them to Offices.
   
3. Make sure you enough money to run the city with your Incineration plants.
   
4. Start setting up more Incineration Plants. Don't make your residents complain about their garbage. You don't want that.
   
5. Quickly empty all your Landfills and Bulldoze them.
   
6. Make residents happy. Activate Recycling policy. Make sure you have positive stream of income weekly.
   
7. Once everything is on positive stream and residents happy, Start bulldozing the Incineration Plants.
   
8. Speed up to level 3 until you get the Achievement!!!! DONE!!!
   
9. Quickly return the incineration plants and don't build landfills anymore if you still want a clean city. Happy City!

Links

I was able to save my game before it hits 0% Ground Pollution. All you have to do is to speed up to level 3 until you unlock the achievement quickly.

1. Download My Save Game from Workshop here.
   
2. View Full Achievement Guide here.

Community Notes

It Works!

[Pip]

use the Eden Project to literally just make all pollution go away

[Chruebert]

Technically a recycling plant does the same as an incineration plant just with less pollutzion and efficiency. pro tipp: If your incineration plant pollute the ground so fast that the old places don't clean up until the city drowns in garbage, which is very likely go for the nomadic plants.

Pause and create a big mesh of roads which are about 500m by 500m for 2-4 incineration plants. In this areas make sure there is water available everywhere and now start moving the plant as soon as ground pollution becomes visible. This gives you time needed for the achievement, but there is kind of a minimal pollution which builds up quick. If any building shows the red garbage can -> bulldoze it before it starts polluting the soil.

[Fanks]

I followed your tips but my ground pollution rating was stuck at 1%. Turns out the residential area became polluted by itself due to piled garbage. So I built some incineration plant to get rid of the garbage. And magically the rating became 0% even though I got like 5 incineration plants. Shit's weird yo.

[Dargino]

Instead of offices and high education, the Forestry industry also produces no pollution, though this needs a forest resource in the map. And the traffic to your commercial zone will increase because they will import goods instead of them being made locally (because not everyone wants everything to be made of wood)

[T22Gaming]

you can directly use incineration without landfill hahaha

[emiliajane71]

I thought the rubbish went to the landfill and then to the incineration plant ? I didn't know it could go straight to the incineration plant ?

[Alakaslam]

I was able to get the achievement by downloading a recycling centre asset from the workshop. No pollution but expensive to place in the early game. It may be considered a bit cheaty for the achievement, but I still use the building in every new city. This is what I use: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=432840529

[influous]

Hey Poké, thanks for your advices.. will try them next time I play. :) Keep up the good work!

[T22Gaming]

You can also check each Incinerator and make sure they don't consume 50% more than their capacity... Delete the ones that is burning more than half of it's capacity and build a new one elsewhere.

[T22Gaming]

I mean, that has a brown ground... cause some of them don't pollute the ground.. especially the new ones :D