This might be a bit late, to respond to this post, but here goes.
To get your garbage / recycling working correctly do the following:
1. Make sure your public transport works well, to ease the traffic flow.
2. Make sure to educate your sims to have them recycle more than they trash.
3. Make sure not to send your trucks to neighboring cities or to have your garbage / recycling collected by neighboring cities.
4. Make sure you have enough garbage / recycling trucks and make sure you don't run out of space, if you run out of space, it might be time to upgrade your recycling / garbage centers.
5. Make sure to have a trade center and to have enough trucks to go to the trade center, from your recycling center.
6. Make sure to have storage holds for the type of materials you recycle, at both the recycling center and trade center, ie: alloy, plastic & metal.
7. Make sure you have enough trucks at the trade center to get rid of materials.
8. Easiest way to get rid of materials is to have it sold to the market.
If you were to follow these steps, you are ensured to have a well functioning garbage system.
9. Make sure to start educating your sims early and to start both recycling & garbage collections early to ensure you don't run into trouble.
I hope this helps other people that might be struggling with this issue.
Hello,
My sims in sim city cities of tomorrow are protesting about garbage.
My trash overlay shows all garbage and recycling being picked up.
My Recycling center is in both my city( 16 Trucks/ 4 delivery trucks) and and neighboring city lends 28 trucks.
My Garbage trash center is in the neighboring city 10 trucks.
My trash level is 415 of 1318 and recycle is 6309 of 108,134
I looked at forum post and it was still an issue since 2013 and they suggested that when you destroyed a building it does not deduct from the totals causing a buildup.
If your trash overlay shows any red bars of trash, then you have a true trash problem. If they're protesting at city hall about garbage but everything is picked up, it's possible you had a problem that's been fixed now and they will eventually stop the protest. Most of the time a trash issue is because of traffic or not enough incinerators or dumps to keep up with the trash. Since your neighboring city is providing all of the trash service, make certain that the garbage trucks are able to get in and out of your city. If they're stuck in traffic at the entrance they may not be able to pick up all the trash by the time they get in. If it takes until the end of the day for them to get into the city, they will just turn around and leave.
I'm a little confused that you say all trash is being picked up but that your trash level is "415 of 1318 and recycle is 6309 of 108,134". Time of (Sim) day is probably the reason. The garbage trucks go out in the morning and will run through the city all day long to pick up the trash. As long as they have picked up everything by the end of the day, it's fine. But if they can't get to all the buildings during their work day, the trash will pile up and overflow, causing garbage problems. Watch your trash overlay for a Sim day, and see how long it takes for the trucks to arrive and get through your city and back out. Check the numbers at 8 pm, they should show all of the garbage picked up by then.
There is another possibility, the garbage trucks from the region may have gotten lost or disappeared (again, this usually happens when they can't get to their destination in time due to traffic issues). The city providing the garbage service should try demolishing the truck garages and rebuilding them, that will put new trucks in. Also, they need to have the capacity to deal with all the trash - enough dumps to hold the garbage, and enough incinerators to process it so there is none remaining by the time the next day's collection starts.
If I were you, I would put in a garbage dump in your city in an out-of-the-way place, and let each city take care of its own garbage. Keep an eye on your traffic issues and make sure the trucks can get through the collection by the end of the day, and process the garbage by the beginning of the next day. Once it's all caught up and your traffic issues are solved, you can always demolish it.
Hello,
I understand what you are talking about but my overlay shows no trash at the end of the day. There is not a problem with traffic I have looked into that see and count all trucks entering that city. But it still show 108k. your response would be welcome. I also understand if i had 108k residents that 108k trash is reasonablebut the city only has 78k residents. does that correlate?
Your trash and recyclable count can be more than your resident count. Trash is also different than recyclables, so I was getting confused focusing on trash when you're apparently concerned about the recyclables. It's possible that your recycling is stalled. I answered your other thread more completely. I've submitted the answer 3 times now and it's not showing up, so I'm not certain what the problem is. I'll try again, but apologies in advance if you get the same reply there multiple times. 🙂
