How To Set Up Garbage Disposal In Cities: Skylines 2

Garbage disposal is an essential service in any city. Homes and businesses of every kind generate garbage and other waste materials, and a functioning city in Cities: Skylines 2 or in real life needs a way to safely dispose of all that trash.

This is why garbage is one of the first civic services players will unlock in Cities: Skylines 2. Unfortunately, many players have been having trouble with garbage disposal thanks to the way the game's landfills work. This guide will explain how to make landfills functional and provide other tips for garbage management.

How to Set Up a Landfill

Landfills are the building type that unlocks when players reach the Tiny Village milestone. It's important to set one up right away because businesses and residents hate living in a neighborhood covered in trash and will move away if they don't get garbage services. No residents mean no taxes, and that can bring the game to a screeching halt.

When players select the landfill, they'll see a brown circle surrounding the building. This shows how far the landfill's working area can extend from the building, but it doesn't show how big the area actually is. For that, players must expand the landfill's storage area themselves. To do so, select the landfill building to bring up its menu and then select the area tool at the bottom of the menu. The icon is a gray rectangle with white borders, and the tool works the same as the district drawing function.

With the area tool selected, players can redraw the landfill's storage space by hovering over the existing border. Click and drag a node to move it, or click and drag part of the line to create a new node. As the borders move, the game will show players the landfill's current storage capacity in tons of garbage. Players can redraw the storage area of a currently working landfill, but they can't make it too small to hold the amount of garbage it already contains.

The area players draw can go up to the edge of the brown circle, but it can't go beyond. The border also can't cross any roads or overlap civic buildings, and it'll destroy any construction zone buildings it overlaps. Players can make the most of the landfill's radius by building it at the end of a remote road and having the storage area go around the end of the street.

Landfills and Garbage Processing

Players may notice that one of the landfill's stats is "Processing Speed." On its own, a landfill will process and remove around half a ton of garbage every month. However, this is far below the rate at which a landfill's trucks can gather garbage.

Between this fact and the small area a landfill starts with, many players have run into trouble while trying to build a garbage management network. Without a large storage area, a landfill quickly fills up and can only collect half a ton of garbage each month. The fact of the matter is that landfills are garbage storage buildings, not garbage processing buildings, and they need a large storage area. The point of a landfill is to collect garbage, and its tiny processing rate is just a helpful extra.

Still, players can boost this processing rate by building the Hazardous Waste Collection Point upgrade. Each one adds another 1.1 tons of garbage processing to the landfill, and players can add as many of them as they want. However, players must build the collection points next to the landfill, so only four of them can fit around a single building.

If players want to get rid of garbage for good, they should unlock and build an incineration plant, a recycling center, or both. In fact, landfills have a special menu function that causes them to empty out. Once activated, their trucks will send their contents to other garbage management facilities, and then players can get rid of landfills in their city for good. Every garbage building generates pollution, but none of them generate as much pollution as a landfill.

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