Hello, fellas! Let’s talk about Cities: Skylines. You know, one of the most popular city-building simulation games in the gaming community. This game allows you to become a successful mayor and run a city that will have a high quality of life and the satisfaction of all its citizens. In this game, you will have to start from scratch, and you will have to build roads, industrial zones, and places to live.
In addition, you will need to connect the city by public transport and provide citizens with entertainment venues. All in all, a game you will never get bored of, we are sure of that.
You can find Cities: Skylines on the Steam platform, and in addition to the classic PC version, there is also a version for game consoles such as PS4 and Xbox One. In this article, we will talk about garbage in your city. Yes, people in your city also create garbage, and what kind of city would it be without garbage? Okay, ideal city, but let’s get back to the point. We will now explain to you how and in what way the collection and removal of garbage and its destruction works. So, let’s begin.
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How Does Garbage Disposal Work in Cities: Skylines?
People wherever there are leave garbage, that’s just a fact. And even in a virtual city. All the people in all the buildings in your virtual city will produce garbage. Garbage can be stored in a landfill, or it can be processed by a recycling center or an incinerator. Each building has a certain maximum amount of garbage that it can receive, and if garbage continues to pile up even after a warning appears that garbage is piled up, people will not stay in it. This will make the building of any kind abandoned.
As in real cities, special garbage trucks take care of garbage collection. They drive through the streets of your city and collect garbage. There are 15 trucks from the recycling center or each landfill and 27 trucks from each incinerator. These garbage trucks collect garbage by passing buildings, and when they are filled with garbage, they go to the landfill or incinerator to unload.
Also, what is very interesting is that more educated citizens produce much less garbage than those who have a lower level of education.. Here they are:
| Policy | Effect | Upkeep/Drawback | DLC |
 Pet Ban | Slightly reduced garbage accumulation. | Slightly decreased happiness. | – |
 Recycle Garbage | Decrease garbage accumulation by 20% for the Nature Reserve buildings. | ₡10/Nature Reserve Building |  |
 Recycle Plastic | Recycling Centers work with +20% efficiency. | ₡100/Recycling Center/week |  |
 Recycling | Slightly reduced garbage accumulation. | Slightly reduced tax income. | – |
Landfills
Landfills are the most common and most straightforward garbage buildings in Cities: Skylines. These are actually large plots of land where garbage can be unloaded from your city. If you do not want to spend a lot of time thinking about the garbage disposal, then choosing landfills is the right option for you.
Each landfill has a number of garbage trucks circling the city (15 garbage trucks per one landfill) and collecting garbage.
Furthermore, landfills have a specific maximum garbage capacity, so you have to be careful when the landfill will be 100% covered with garbage. Once the landfill has reached its limit, you will need to empty it. This requires a significant amount of time, so you can start emptying it when it reaches 80% full of garbage.
The advantage of landfills is that they are relatively cheap to maintain, so they will not reduce your budget, but their proximity to people can cause disease, which reduces people’s quality of life and health. Also, landfills produce a lot of ground pollution and reduce the value of the land where they are placed.
Our advice is to replace landfills with Incinerators when you have more than 20,000 people in your city and when your profit is around $ 15,000. That way, you will be able to pay for the maintenance of the Incinerators and have enough garbage to serve as a power source for your city. The Incinerators can be pretty handy because they burn garbage and thus produce power for your city. Still, they should be placed outside the city because they produce a lot of air and noise pollution. However, the Incinerators will completely solve your problem with garbage in the city so consider this idea.
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How to Empty Landfills in Cities: Skylines?
Landfills can become a living torment for players when they become full of garbage. When they are full of garbage, they cannot be removed from the game, nor can they be destroyed with a bulldozer. Landfills can be emptied of rubbish when they are partially complete or completely full.
Landfills are emptied by garbage trucks coming and taking the garbage to another landfill or to the Incinerator where the garbage will be burned. Only when the landfill is entirely empty can you move it to another location or destroy it with a bulldozer. New trash will start to collect again when you turn off emptying mode.
Basically, the formula is to start building the landfill, then when you have collected enough money and people in the city you can start building the Incinerators. After that, just empty the landfills that will be emptied with the help of garbage trucks, and the garbage will be taken to the Incinerators and burned.
You can do this by clicking the “Empty building to another facility” button.
Empty It! mod for Cities: Skylines
Are you tired of constantly paying attention to landfills and forgetting to empty them? Of course, you are; you need to pay attention to many more essential tasks in the city, so why further complicate when there is a perfect mod for landfills.
With Empty It!, the mod of your building will be automatically emptied of garbage. With this mod, you can set your landfill sites, waste transfer facilities, warehouses, or snow dumps to automatically empty at a specified threshold. This will solve the garbage disposal problem much faster.
You can find this mod in the Steam Workshop for Cities: Skylines. But be careful; downloading the mod is solely your responsibility. Mods are not part of the official version of the game but are add-ons made by mod creators, and by downloading these mods, you agree to share your data with the mod owner. Mods can affect your game negatively, so be careful which pages you download the mods from.
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Final Thoughts
As you can see, the garbage problem will not bypass your virtual city either. Proper and reasonable garbage disposal means better health and happiness for your citizens. Every citizen in every building in your city produces garbage. Garbage can be collected up to a specific capacity, after which if it is not taken out of the building, it will soon be abandoned.
There are various garbage disposal options at Cities: Skylines. The simplest option (and the cheapest) is to install landfills. The landfills come with 15 garbage trucks that drive around the city and collect garbage and bring it to the landfill. The landfill is advisable to build away from people because, in addition to producing a lot of ground pollution, it also has a harmful effect on the health of people living nearby.
When the landfill is full (you can empty it with 80% occupancy), you can click on the “Empty building to another facility” option, and garbage trucks will come and take the garbage to another landfill or to the Incinerator. It is advisable to replace landfills with Incinerators later in the game because waste disposal will be much easier – garbage in Incinerators is burned, and you will not have a problem with emptying landfills all the time.
Feel free to share with us what you think about how to dispose of garbage in Cities: Skylines; we look forward to your ideas.
