🆕 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 Waste

Chemical Waste

Recovered chemical waste from a sorting process.

Weight15000 gMax stack10Carried on back

Notes

Chemical Waste is a block of recovered garbage produced by a sorting process, weighing 15 kg per unit and stacking up to 10. It counts as a solid, diggable wall block that can be carried on the back, but it also contributes 0.1 ground pollution per block placed, so dumping it carelessly will poison nearby soil and reduce housing value. If you produce Chemical Waste, store or dispose of it properly in a contained area rather than leaving it on the surface, since its pollution will accumulate and damage the local ecosystem.

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 Industrial WasteSorter catalystCarbon FilterPollutes while mixedChemical · 0.1/unit

Recycled from (40 of 140)

How garbage, sorting & recycling work

Categories

See also