Cities: Skylines
119 Achievements
2580 XP
60-80h
Epic
Garbage Collection Issues
Have 5 garbage service points reach their capacity limit.
50 XP
0.1%
How to unlock the Garbage Collection Issues achievement in Cities: Skylines - Definitive Guide
Papaparkin
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Works quickly if you have an existing large city (mine was 220k people).
Method as follows
Put down one pedestrian service building anywhere in your city
Create a pedestrian zone covering your entire city
Click on the pedestrian zone name and navigate to policies and turn on "Deliver everywhere"
Wait a few minutes until you unlock the small garbage service building (needs 3 garbage trucks / week in the main service building).
Place down 5 of the garbage service buildings anywhere you like in your city and just wait 2-3 minutes until they hit capacity (the buildings will display flashing red garbage trucks) and the achievement will unlock when the fifth one is at capacity.
Method as follows
Put down one pedestrian service building anywhere in your city
Create a pedestrian zone covering your entire city
Click on the pedestrian zone name and navigate to policies and turn on "Deliver everywhere"
Wait a few minutes until you unlock the small garbage service building (needs 3 garbage trucks / week in the main service building).
Place down 5 of the garbage service buildings anywhere you like in your city and just wait 2-3 minutes until they hit capacity (the buildings will display flashing red garbage trucks) and the achievement will unlock when the fifth one is at capacity.
14 Comments
Does it matter how many pedestrian roads you have in the city vs standard ones, how many recycling plants etc.?
By PJTierney on 15 Sep 2022 22:03
The only content from the dlc I used for this was the pedestrian service and garbage service buildings so I don't think it matters. You could try building up your garbage before doing the method above by reducing funding in the budget tab and leave to run - don't know if this will work, but it should create a bit of a back log in the city.
By Papaparkin on 16 Sep 2022 07:47
Upisoft NA
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1. With a relatively developed city(at least 75K-80K population?), zone everything into one big pedestrian zone and place the service point.
2. After you unlocked the small garbage point after playing for a little while, turn on the ‘Deliver Everything’ policy for that pedestrian area.
3. Build a VERY LONG isolated two-lane road WITHOUT any outside connection and place 5 small garbage points side by side in the middle section of that road and just leave them there. They should be all 0/5 capacity for now, do not forget to provide good water supply for the road.
4. Wait a few weeks for the garbage inside the pedestrian area to pile up, less educated citizens piles up quicker. Depending on your city, just go AFK for a few minutes until the most of the map is starting to be filled with white garbage icons.
5. Pause the game, raise your garbage budget to 150%, and build as many incineration plants closely together and to the middle(I built 50+) as you can on both sides of the isolated road we built earlier, delete the extra length of the road if there is any.
6. Press start and watch garbage trucks causing traffic jams by themselves, piling up all capacities of our garbage points and giving us the achievement.
Tried on multiple saves, should work for any city with some population, even smaller cities if you wait for garbage piling to go red. Be sure to save some money before attempting this method. The other solution sadly didn’t work for me.
2. After you unlocked the small garbage point after playing for a little while, turn on the ‘Deliver Everything’ policy for that pedestrian area.
3. Build a VERY LONG isolated two-lane road WITHOUT any outside connection and place 5 small garbage points side by side in the middle section of that road and just leave them there. They should be all 0/5 capacity for now, do not forget to provide good water supply for the road.
4. Wait a few weeks for the garbage inside the pedestrian area to pile up, less educated citizens piles up quicker. Depending on your city, just go AFK for a few minutes until the most of the map is starting to be filled with white garbage icons.
5. Pause the game, raise your garbage budget to 150%, and build as many incineration plants closely together and to the middle(I built 50+) as you can on both sides of the isolated road we built earlier, delete the extra length of the road if there is any.
6. Press start and watch garbage trucks causing traffic jams by themselves, piling up all capacities of our garbage points and giving us the achievement.
Tried on multiple saves, should work for any city with some population, even smaller cities if you wait for garbage piling to go red. Be sure to save some money before attempting this method. The other solution sadly didn’t work for me.
3 Comments
Yeah this solution isn’t working either.
By CatTully on 14 Apr 2023 18:35
In 5 min, I unlocked this achievement with this great method thank you !!
By IRealG on 21 Sep 2023 18:50
SteveKletzi
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This is how it worked for me:
You have to have a lot of Garbage Incinerators and they have to be turned on. In a city of about 30k on the I have 12 Incinerator Plants.
Zone the entire City pedestrian with one service point, then after unlocking the garbage service point, build 5 of them and turn on deliver everything policy. Turn now the Incinerators and your landfills off and let garbage pile up for a while.
Then turn on all 12 incinerators and the number on the pedestrian inspection page climbs pretty fast from 0 to 100 capacity used
You have to have a lot of Garbage Incinerators and they have to be turned on. In a city of about 30k on the I have 12 Incinerator Plants.
Zone the entire City pedestrian with one service point, then after unlocking the garbage service point, build 5 of them and turn on deliver everything policy. Turn now the Incinerators and your landfills off and let garbage pile up for a while.
Then turn on all 12 incinerators and the number on the pedestrian inspection page climbs pretty fast from 0 to 100 capacity used
