SimCity 240: Garbage Ploppables

Your citizens are going to make large piles of rubbish that you're going to have to collect and pack away or burn or something -- lest they getting sick or carried off by rats.

You have two options: you can spend tons of money trying to shove tons of trash into the ground -- or, you can make tons of money by sorting the garbage and turning it back into raw material. The choice is yours, but make it soon because as we speak someone in your town is throwing out the trash.

Garbage Dump

The cheap yet not-so-cheap way to handle garbage is to simply dump it into a landfill. To do this, simply build a garbage dump and select hunks of land ("dump zones") for occupation by the enemy. Landfills are free, so you can set up eight of them for only the cost of the truck garages (max: 8).

If you bulldoze a garbage dump, the garbage is immediately converted to ground pollution.

If you decide to abandon the idea of recycling, you'll eventually grow to a point where storing garbage is simply unfeasible. At that point, you will have to begin burning garbage in incinerators (max: 8) in order to keep yourself from being buried in it. With this in mind, make sure you build your garbage dump downwind of any residential zones so you don't drive people out of your city or crush property values.

TIP: the garbage dump comes with a landfill already attached. However, the placement of this landfill is horrible. Your best bet is to demolish the landfill that they give you and replace it with another after you extend the service road. This will allow you to minimize the amount of space required for garbage.

Recycling Center

The expensive yet not-so-expensive way to handle garbage is to sort it into it's component parts via a recycling center. Once you have extracted the composite materials, you can then sell them and actually turn a profit if your people are dirty enough.

Upgrades to the recycling center include reclamation lines that speed the process up and various garbage trucks that either collect unsorted garbage or transport raw materials to the global market for sale.

• 8 garbage truck garages (pickup)
• 4 garbage truck garages (delivery)
• 4 reclamation lines

In fact, there are so many garages that this building is a particular nightmare to layout. I highly recommend running a road behind the building for the garbage truck garages to compact the space required for this ploppable as much as possible.