Cities: Skylines

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Earthloving City

Earthloving City

No water or ground pollution in a city of over 10,000 residents

30 XP

1.0%

How to unlock the Earthloving City achievement in Cities: Skylines - Definitive Guide

Some tips to help-

Use the Info view to find out how much pollution you have.

1. Just use wind turbines for your power as they produce no pollution.
2. Make sure your water source is well away from any pollution.
3. Have no industrial zones, use office zone to keep your
Industry bar happy.
4. When you reach the rank of 'Big town' you will have access to the Incineration plant. Build 3 or 4 of these close to your landfills. Use your inspection tool on all the landfills you own and start emptying your landfills, it'll send them to the incinerators. (Landfills will NOT recieve any rubbish while in emptying mode).
5. When you reach the rank of 'Big City' you will have access to the water treatment plant, bulldoze any water drain pipes you have and replace them with these.
6. Hopefully now the only thing you have left producing pollution is now the Incinerators. Now we can bulldoze them. It'd be advisable to activate the Recycling policy as the pollution will take a few in-game months to disappear. (This is because we have no way of emptying your populations garbage).
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26 Apr 2017 18:05

15 Comments
Do you have to avoid zoning for industry to get this to work?
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By Lt Warfarin on 27 Apr 2017 03:00
Yea, I have missed this in the guide, Apologies,
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By Splinun1 on 27 Apr 2017 05:37
Where will all the garbage go if i bulldoze the incinerators?
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By ZRkillerBUSH on 27 Apr 2017 10:23
It will accumulate in the populations houses/business. I wouldn't worry about it.
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By Splinun1 on 27 Apr 2017 18:19
Glad it was helpful :)
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By Splinun1 on 29 Apr 2017 22:34
Regarding Industry, I would also recommend setting up Districts that limit your Industry to Forest or Farming, as these produce no pollution.

May come in handy for people who haven't unlocked Offices yet and want to start a new city from scratch for this Achievement.
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By PJTierney on 01 May 2017 16:18
I got -1% pollution... hmmm..
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By Rotcat on 24 Jul 2017 15:24
Popped soon as ACP dropped below 1% (currently 0.78%). Incinerators made no difference, they are air pollution, currently got 10 running.
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By THE OOZ on 02 Mar 2018 12:28
After trying for hours... my pollution never dropped under 1,18%. I was mad an steuck my Incinerators with meteors.. Achievement popped and the pollution dropped at 0,78%..
Wonderful meteors..
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By Metroido on 22 Jun 2018 02:20
Just an FYI, mine popped after following most of the tips above but did not go to step 6. Had the Eden Project built which took my ground pollution down to slightly over 3%, I dezoned a few industrial zones and then was working on the Tough City achievement. Having a crime rate of over 45% for more than a year caused most of my industry buildings to be abandoned...pop goes the achievement.
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By Rista B on 11 Oct 2019 12:28
I deleted all of my industry when I was re-arranging my city and this ended up popping once all of the buildings had disappeared. I only use advanced turbines as well as water treatment stations. I had 0% water pollution and my ground pollution was something like .83%
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By Mr DopeGaming on 23 Jan 2020 13:12
✌😁 vlw
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By RamonGamer01 on 08 Mar 2021 21:33
Got it with ~1.25% ground pollution after de-zoning industry. Didn’t need to deal with landfills.
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By Viper3773 on 09 Oct 2022 19:45
thank you, just got the achievement for following your instructions, many thanks :-)
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By Tactical#8786 on 24 Apr 2023 22:03
Hi Splinun,

Great guide - just wanted to add that if you keep pollution to a minimum from the off, you can get the achievement as early as step 4 of your plan. I guess "No Pollution" simply means "less than 1%", as the achievement unlocked as soon as I hit below 1%. The only variation for me was that I put all residential areas on Recycling policy from step 4.

Wouldn't have gotten it without steps 1-4 though so thanks!
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By kintaris on 29 Apr 2017 22:28
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If your in a position to get this ach, obtain the eden project monument, place in city, and all pollution is eventually dropped to 0%,
just a different way to get ach
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29 Apr 2017 06:16

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How long does it take to get it to 0% with eden project movement. It seems take forever or no processing dropping down. Im just at 4% ground pollution
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By BlueyZeal on 07 Sep 2018 21:00
@MadMirror I've exactly the same problem, do you now know how long it takes?
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By Rotcat on 15 Apr 2019 18:46
I end up making copy save of my city and delete all stuff that had red mark on map. It pop that way. That monument seems never work.
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By BlueyZeal on 15 Apr 2019 19:39
@MadMirror, Thanks. It seems like the Eden Monument only completely removes the pollution in the water but not for the produced pollution by the incinerators, nor for the generic industry. It drops, but not completly.
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By Rotcat on 20 Apr 2019 19:47
I de-zoned all my industry without deleting any incinerators and was able to drop below 1% using the eden project. I think de-zoning is pretty important.
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By Failure Online on 16 Jun 2019 00:32
Obrigado me ajudou muito
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By RamonGamer01 on 08 Mar 2021 21:36
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Ok what i did here in order to get this achievement, was:

1) Hit population 16000 and unlock the water treatment facilities. I replaced the old sewer system with that so i don't produce water pollution

2) I begun to buy incinerators and started emptying the garbage fields. Just buy enough.

3) Replaced all industrial areas with office areas.

Bam achievement unlocked :)

Good luck.
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02 Nov 2015 00:00

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It works perfectly. Thank you!
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By Daruk on 08 Jun 2016 06:14
You are welcome buddy :)
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By LMEPHISTO on 08 Jun 2016 08:52
It works perfectly. Thank you!
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By Daruk on 08 Jun 2016 11:48
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In all honesty, I don't think you really need to put in a huge effort for this one, it seems like they just want relatively low ground and water pollution. I wasn't actively trying for the achievement, though strangely enough when it popped I was actively going for the 5 full garbage dumps achievement.

-The power source I used was turbines and water turbines.
-I had the outflows placed on the very edge of the map so they left the map quickly
-I had industry, as well as farm and forest specialized industry (so the industry is probably air pollution)
-I had 1 full garbage dump turned off (to save budget) as well as 4 partially full ones all in the same area.
-I did not have an incinerator, so I don't think that makes much difference

If it helps any, the map I was using was islands. I originally had my outflow sewage on the farthest I could go on the bottom right of the starting square (3,3) if you look at the map with the grid at the following page. After buying more land, I moved them to the lowest water between the two little islands (so on square (4,4), the corner of the small island in the bottom right of that square)

http://www.skylinesplanningguide.com/2015/03/CitiesSkylinesM...
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24 May 2017 21:37

Unlock the Eden Project and build the monument. I received this naturally a few years after building the monument.
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22 Aug 2017 23:51