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Recycling - Just How Renewable? 66%

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2025-01-04 10:11:46

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I've tryed to work out How much of the resources a city will request and How much waste it produce at given populations Anually.

Then if that amount of waste is recycled how much of the needed production can it be used to Produce.

(Il add more pop values as im able to collect them)

Expect lots of numbers calculated by hand so be sure to let me know if something doesn't add up.

(Numbers from Early Access release version)

Pops And Demands

Each time a city Demand is changed the requested resources and waste will be Lowered to a more manageable rate before ramping back up again to the next Milestone.

Metal Waste is first available at 1k

Food and Organic Waste at 10k

Composite and Plastic at 100k

Table shows 1 City pops not total world pops.

Requested and Waste are for each item type not total of all items

Population RequestedWasteNote 9.9k 187 280 Metal Waste Only 10k 100 150 Organic Waste Available 99.9k 500 750 100k 200 300 Plastic Waste Available

Reinforced Concrete no Longer required

Composite Available 250k 380 575 300k 435 650 500k 615 925 700k 780 1170 1M 1000 1500 2M 1625 2430

Recycle - Aluminum

So you Started recycling what are you going to to do with it all that Aluminum is going to back up fast if we don't put it to good use.

So its best useage is to make Hightech Parts. (HTP)

3x HTP = 2x ALU, 1x Polymer

Recycled metal give 1 Aluminum (ALU) and 2 Steel (ST) per 3 Metal Waste (MW).

So i used this formular

MW/3 /2 x3 - City Demand /3 x2

Population WasteAluminumHTP

CyclesHTP

ProducedCity

DemandRemaining

HTPCyclesShortage

Bars 9.9k2809346.5140187-471632 10k150502575100-25917 99.9k750250125375500-1254283 100k30010050150200-501734 250k57519296288380-923162 300k650217108.5325.5435-109.536.573 500k925308154462615-15351102 700k1170390195585780-19565130 1M15005002507501000-25083167 2M243081040512151625-410137273

Recycling Will not fully Supplement Aluminium mining but will vastly lower the overall demand on the raw resource.

Recycle - Steel Bars

Thats a lot of Steel you have there, Would be ashame to not put it all to use.

Early on Steel's (ST) main Use is in Reinforced Concrete (RC)

1x RC = 1x ST, 1x Concrete

And later in Composite (CP) as Tempered Steel (TS)

3x TS = 4x ST, 1x Nitrogen

1x CP = 1x TS, 1x Polymer

Recycled metal give 1 Aluminum (ALU) and 2 Steel (ST) per 3 Metal Waste (MW).

Formular

MW/3x2 x1 - City Demand x1

Population WasteSteelRC

CyclesRC

ProducedCity DemandRemaining

RCCyclesShortage 9.9k280187187187187000 10k150100100100100000 99.9k750500500500500000

Once up and running recycled Steel will cover Reinforced Concrete Output with just a little outside supply of Iron as the System ramps up.

Formular

MW/3x2 /4 x3 x1 -City Demand x1 x1

PopsWasteSteelTS

CyclesTS

ProducedCP

CyclesCP

ProducedCity DemandCP

RemainingTS

RemainingShortage

ST 100k30020050150150150200-50-5067 250k57538496288288288380-92-92123 300k650433108324324324435-111-111148 500k925617155463463463615-152-152203 700k1170780195585585585780-195-195260 1M150010002507507507501000-250-2503332M243016204051215121512151625-410-410547

Composite will use all the recycled steel and still require some outside input.

Recycle - Compost

Organic Waste requires an Input of nitrogen to make compost a key ingredient in the production of food for your cities.

5x Organic Waste(OW) + Nitrogen = 1x Compost(Com)

1x Compost + 4x Water = 2x Food(FD)

formular

OW/5 x2 - City Demand /2

Population WasteCom

CyclesFD

ProducedCity DemandFD

ShortageCom

Shortage 10k 15030601004020 99.9k 750150300500200100 100k 300601202008040 250k 57511523038015075 300k65013026043517587.5500k925185370615312156700k11702344687803121561M150030060010004002002M24304869721625653326.5

A seperate set up for compost using the Alternate receipe will be required to meet the growing food demand.

1x Compost = 3x Carbon +1x Nitrogen in a Factory

Recycle - Polymer

Polymers are made with Carbon and take alot of space so using as much Recycled plastic as you can is a great idea. They have duel usage for Hightech Parts and Composite.

Polymers(POL) main Use is in Composite(CP) and Hightech Parts(HTP)

1x POL = 2x Plastic Waste

1x CP = 1x Tempered Steel, 1x POL

formular

PW/2 x1 - City Demand x1 x1

PopulationWastePolymerCompCity DemandCP

StortagePOL

Stortage 100k300 1501502005050 250k 575287.5287.538092.592.5 300k 650325325435110110 500k 925462.5462.5615152.5152.5 700k 1170585585780195195 1M 15007507501000250250 2M 2430121512151625410410

1x POL = 2x Plastic Waste

3x HTP = 2x ALU, 1x POL

formular

PW/2 x1 x3 - City Demand x1 /3

PopulationWastePolymerHTP

CyclesHTP

ProducedCity DemandHTP

SurplusPOL

Surplus 100k30015015045020025083 250k 575287.5287.5862380482161 300k 650325325975435540180 500k 925462.5462.51387.5615772.5257.5 700k 11705855851755780975325 1M 1500750750225010001250417 2M 243012151215364516252020673

Polymers multi use makes them very versitile and in high demand by clearly over produce when making HTP which can lead to storage issues if not managed well.

Reveiw

It seems that while you can keep a city stable with just the recycled goods, there will always be an outside drain on resources in order to grow your cities.

Recycling recovers approximatly 66% of material needed to run the city

Recycled Waste is 150% of the requested resource rate.

However for those that did in fact read through the numbers you can see that the recycled Steel and Polymers form an almost perfect Balance when used in creation of Composites and as such should be where possible kept in a near closed loop inputting Nitrogen and exporting Aluminum to the HTP production area.

I hope this Guide helped in some way. (And that they don't change these rates anytime soon)

Source: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2938272241

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