🆕 Updated for Eco 14 — “Garbage & Recycling” — this server and these numbers now reflect the new version. What changed →
  • Byproducts: nearly every recipe now leaves waste behind, so recipe pages list byproducts alongside ingredients.
  • Garbage & recycling: waste sorts from mixed garbage down to pure materials, and can be recycled back into stock.
  • Pollution has four kinds: acid rain, chemical, soil and heavy mineral, each settling into the ground differently. Pollution guide →
  • Modules reworked: upgrades are now Basic / Advanced / Modern / Specialty, one per slot, driving the same bonus system as talents. Module guide →
  • Fresh water: machines need it — water drawn from the ocean has to be desalinated first.

The character calculator has been updated for these changes. Read the garbage & recycling guide →

Chemical Pollutant

Chemical Pollutant

A horrid heap of toxic, ultra-polluting chemical waste. Devastates the ground around it and seeps into nearby soil and water ? contain it, or keep it as far from anything living as possible.

Weight15000 gMax stack10Carried on back

Notes

Chemical Pollutant is a block of toxic waste that devastates the ground around it and seeps into nearby soil and water. It is a solid, diggable garbage block that can be carried on the back, and each block contributes 0.1 ground pollution. Because even a single block significantly contaminates land, it should be stored far from any living areas, crops, or water sources, and contained carefully to prevent pollution from damaging housing value and fertility.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

As a block

Ground pollutionChemical · 0.1SolidDiggableWall

How ground pollution works

Recycling & waste

As a garbage material
FamilyMixed ResidualsResidual (terminal leftover)Pollutes while mixedChemical · 0.1/unit

Recycled from

How garbage, sorting & recycling work

Categories

See also