Garbage Collection with Trucks | Tutorial | Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic Guides 

I've never thought garbage collection would be that complicated in so many ways. Just launched the game after couple years and, OMG, there's so much going on right now! Thank you for helping to understand the garbage system.

I feel like the garbage collection with small trucks is seriously broken right now, pathfinding is just terrible and your example shows it well. In my cities I only use big containers because of that, they create a lot less traffic (there is nothing worse than trucks wanting to turn around at every crossroad all the time) which is basically the main concern when a self-sufficient district grows over 10k pop and has some road cargo and buses going through it. And since garbage trucks are driving less, the fuel expenses are much lower too, as well as the overall amount of trucks and their wear.

15:20 My personal tips for "multiple small containers" are these: 1) Sort only things that make sense; with houses usually only that matters is biowaste. 2) If you have higher volumes (like from Dnipro flats), more evenly spread containers help to "spread the load" as multiple stands in reach will fill at the same time from different buildings, thus prolonging the time between "half full" (TS truck assigning) and "overflowing" (pollution creating). Not having just one stand for biowaste, second for mixed, third for metal etc. helps this; instead make all of them with double metal, double plastic 5-7 biowaste and rest mixed waste. 3) For even higher volumes it is optional to have only mixed waste in one and all sortable things (except aluminum and hazardous that do not emerge normally) in another next to it. This also reduces the amount of trips for each vehicle. But these "doubles" I tend to spread in densier living parts with high-density buildings, as simple "7 biowaste + rest mixed waste" is a good enough setup for basically all city stands. 4) For large-throughput buildings a road-connected big containers stand (at least the 8-container type) is a must to maintain effectivity. Generally speaking about shops, hotels, hospitals and large universities (and of course all industries). 5) I completele second the "waste-collection yard" idea. That is the best way to unclogg your customs, reduce driving distance of small trucks and to prevent pollution from happening. With added DO near it, there should not be a huge accumulation of waste anyway (just set DO to load from 5-10% capacity and it will go with full container all the time). If your stands fill more than 20%, you have a problem in your setup (either not having a target for that type of waste or something stuck in the chain after this station). Use this as a buffer to solve the issue quick ;) ________________ All in all, thanks for the testing, BB. I like these and I really didn´t knew that trucks either pick from buildings only or from stands only. This was new for me

thanks for the video man, with this i learned bog standard trash collection is not under the WASTE rap, but infrastructure and then maintenance. 1 hour of screaming at my pedestrian trash cans being full and apparently impossible to empty finally over.

11:30 "Now they are keeping the city relatively clean" LoL - after more than half of the city already died on pollution (from 6k pop to 2,4k pop) it is quite natural for garbage trucks to "be better at overall waste collection". But I doubt that it is the best demonstration of garbage stands effectivity :D :D

Nice, to the point and helpful... I didnt know the thing about the road nodes... I built less footpaths when I tested this... ;) Maybe this actually leads to it being optimal to have a big street through the center of the city, because more other services (secret police, police) also work similar to this. By the way, I think a small container stands needs to be 50% full for a waste truckt to get sent.

Awesome! Just started laying out my first city with the new garbage features...so this helps a lot!

needed this. liked before even watching it

One thing I found out today: You can actually link up garbage collection stands to lines, and thus get garbage collected without using the technical services office at all! I figure it might well be worth it for mines and ore processing plants, those really produce tons of garbage. In my current game I'm going into steel production next, starting with the coal production, exporting it until I get to use it for steel. I just got the coal mine started, and my technical services quickly got overwhelmed. Next, I'm setting up a dump with a railway just next to the garbage collection stand, and make a dedicated line loading garbage at the stand and unloading it at the dump for rail transport elsewhere. That way, the garbage truck will only travel the short distance between the garbage collection stand and the dump, rather than go via the technical services.

Like you said, the logic for garbage collection is calculated only at road nodes. From there it looks like it follows a simple pattern 1) Pick up trash from closest garbage (Prefer garbage stands over buildings) 2) If full, go to drop off point. Otherwise, repeat step 1.

Interesting that the routing requires nodes but realistically they exist even in a mostly path based city. I would add that one of the easiest efficiency gains is simply to build a transfer station (about 3-400m away from the city as it can cause pollution). Limits driving distance for pickup trucks, removes need for them to visit the border and therefore doesn't really matter if they are full or not. Then you can empty that with a DO that has big garbage trucks which will only ever be taking full truckloads to the border/waste processing facilities you have built. It can also be quite useful to keep small garbage stands in the city as it creates a hard separation in your republic between citizen waste and industrial waste which you often want to deal with differently.

yaaaas thank you!!!!

i always use the small containers for residents and one big container for the hospital and for all my industries

I don't have distribution offices yet how do I make them collect

wow, thank you ! The road node thing explains why I'm struggling with trash in one of my cities that mostly relies on foot paths. Maybe this also explains why I partly solved my problem by installing small big container garbage collection points (partly because I got fed up with the small ones) on the road : It added collection points for big trucks and at the same time made new nodes for the small trucks to decide to turn back ! Anyways, I went the route of "install small big container collection point along the roads, install big footpath small container collection points inside the path networks". Maybe I'll design my new cities with more road connections and see what happens ? maybe also test with big road small container collection points as well.

Sorry but the road Node Logic is cracy 😜

Best garabage truck is gz-53 is small cost fast and economic of fuel

And what to do if i have big stand for big containers for my steel plant and my technical services with trucks for big containders don't go to collect trash? They have place to get mixed waste off and everything is connected

think the reason for stoping them doing theire job is fuel as long they not fully loaded

Im trying to get them to work at all. No tutorial. So ty

I have a residence that my garbage trucks cant see. Its over flowing and they will drive right past. Has yet to be picked up once in game. Have placed nodes everywhere. Can you think of anything I could be missing that would cause a building to be invisible? Does not have road connection.

Hey, I'm looking to build an industry off scavenging imported waste and recycling it to produce more valuable resources for internal consumption and export So far I've got a separation station up that's clearing out most of it but I'm starting to notice a lot of biowaste and fertilizer left over (with some other things mixed in I can't recall off the top of my head) and I can't find a way to separate the two Can I just run it through the composter and trust them to sort it out or will that gunk everything up? Also, is there a way to separate Burnables from everything else? I'm considering the possibility of burning trash for heat and electricity, but I don't know if I can do that without having to burn things that could be more valuable when recycled

Test scrolling was too fast at 10:12

This is what happened to China's ghost cities

Actually it is not working at all. I have the free and I have one office that I paid for. I have 706rt's and 706 rtk's but they do n ot go anywhere!! the truck window says working to saralenia tech service and the tech service windows have the different building management offices for sewage, water mixed waste etc. they all say "nothing assigned and I cannot assign anything/truck to them?? This is so frustrating. I have both stand for small and big containers. everything is full of trash yet these trucks just do not move. I also selected the overlay to see the trash on the building like on your video (04:13) but the little trash icon did not appear. Finally at 01:49 in you video the 706 truck window shows 3 line items where the truck will go pick-up trash my trucks do not show that??? I looked at the tutorial I look at multiple tutorial videos your guys all show your garbage trucks just driving around, mine do move??? What am I doing wrong? Help! 🙂

Why is everyone talking about using waste transfer stations as if it was some sort of a lifehack? While it's clearly how it's intended in the first place.