I made this guide because, when I started the game, the game isn't always very clear what to do and there is no tutorial. so I will try to help you so it is easier for you to start the game and enjoy.

1. First things first
   
2. How to make a route
   
3. Planning the day(s) to pick up garbage
   
4. Buying and managing trucks and your staff
   
5. Picking up the garbage
   
6. Dump spots
   
7. Landfills
   
8. Companies (will be added in the future)
   
9. Advantages and Disadvangtages
   
10. Note

In the game there is a basic help, when you do something for the first time, they show you how to use it, but here is also the problem, they don't say what the best option is to start with.


Still in progress
Because this game is fairly new, I will constantly update this walkthrough, because of updates (maybe with new features) or just because things are going to work a little bit different. And also i'm just level 4 in this game, and I also haven't unlocked everything in this game.

In the future
I will make a walkthrough for the companies.
I will ad the advantage and disadvantages for like owning a landfill, company, drive yourself or auto-pilot.

The information is based on gameversion 1.0.0.2


At the moment I am updating it to version 1.0.3.3 (ingame) /1.0.0.4 (forum)

Go to the Management Area (see red circle in the picture below) and then select "route license". when you open the route license, you can buy any route, but there are 2 kind of bins, the big bins and the small bins. Both can be picked, with the small garbage truck and the big garbage truck
When you do NOT own a route, the garbage bin will be grey, also this garbage containers are the small ones.

Information when not owning a route
If we look at "At The Bell" you can see I do not own that route license. The grey containers gives an indication the amount of garbage, so how often you need to empty them. If you look a litte bit to the right you see a kind of marker and a 9 this means that there are nine containers on the route and the street symbol says how long that route is (832meters)

Information when you own a route
When you buy a route, the container will change green, and there will be some extra little coloured containers (generic, paper, etc.) and some percentage. In a few days it will become higer percentage. the best is to wait until you got 100% but this is not always possible.

The best routes to start
The "best" way to start is to scroll down to the end and buy to these routes, these routes a also by your beginnning lot (see picture above):

• Fire Tower Road
  
• Queen Street
  
• Long Road
  
• Flowers Street

When you bought one or more routes you also need to buy the containers and select one or more days to collect the garbage and get paid. normally you do this step directly after the previous step. if not go to the management area. and select "route" (see image below).

Buying garbage bins
First select the right bin, grey for generic waste, and in the beginning it's the only garbage bin you can select, make sure you buy the right size, so if you follow this manual, you have to buy the small bins not the big ones.

The amount of bins you need to buy depends on the street. so for instance Queen Streets need 9 bins. If you have bought all the streets I said in previous step you need 38 bins.
Press the 0 4 times now it says 41 then 3 times press right mouse button and you will have 38 bins

Selecting pick up day(s)
when you have bought the garbage bins, you have to select at least one day to pick them up. when you click on a day you will see a garbagebin with x1. this means that, there will be one garbage bin per point. with these streets it takes about 4-5 days to fill the bin. so you can do 2 things, first and cheapest one is to select 2 pick up days like I did, monday and friday.
The other and more expensive solution is to buy the double amount of bins that is needed, and click twice on that day. so you see x2. You can choose to only pick generic waste once a week, and the garbage bins will be 100%, it's totally up to you.

Making changes
If you wanna change your pick up day or the amount of containers. Left mouse button will ad containers, and the right mouse button will lower the amount of containers.

Later in the game you can do different garbage like paper, then again buy the amount of paper (blue), organic (green), plastic (yellow) garbage bins that is needed for that route, and select one or more days.

When you start the game you own one parking lot called "Crobbs Creek".
So we have bought the routes, bought the containers and selected one or more days to pick up the garbage. Now we need to buy a garbage truck and hire some people who pick up the garbage.

Go to management area and select garage. (see picture)

Buying a garbabe truck
Under Crobbs Creek, you see that I allready own one garbagetruck, but we want to buy a truck, so you see in a litte + in the retangle below my garbagetruck, if you hover over the button it also says buy truck. Then buy the small garbage truck (the only one you can buy).
In the rectangle you see a preview of your truck, and some 2 grey men. That means that to operate this vehicle you need to hire 2 workers.

Hire workers
On the right there you see workers, each worker cost 1.000 per week
you see a yellow helmet with 0/0 (on picture 2/2), this means that you don't have any employee at the moment. Above the yellow helmet you see a green button with a little helmet and some kind of an arrow that is pointing up. Press this to hire workers, you need to hire 2 workers to operate the little truck, one driver and one who picks up the container bins. Now you see 0/2 this means that you have two workers, but none of them are on a truck. the next thing we need to do is putting them on a truck, see the next paragraph.

Vehicle
If you look at the bottom right it says vehicle,
First you have to send your workers to truck, do this by clicking on the button with the helmet and the checkmark, to get them of the truck select the button with helmet and the cross. The other buttons are the refill button, the repair button when your truck has been damage and the last one is selling the truck, when you don't need your truck anymore.
Press drive if you want to drive the truck yourself. Before you use autopilot please read the next section first :D

Autopilot, Route and dump at
If you drive the vehicle yourself you don't have to select any route or dumping place.
When you want to select autopilot, first select which route he has to empty the bins, and select a dumping place where he can dump the garbage, in the begin of the game there is only one place to select so this is really easy :D.
you can select every route you own, as long as there is at least 1 garbage bin not being emptied. but when you select a route you have done a partly he does all the bins, even the bins you allready did, a few hours later he will be ready :D
Also you can only select a route when it is pick up day for that route.

So we bought the routes, bought conainers set some days to pick up the garbage, we own a truck and hired some workers to do the job, now we are going to collect the garbage.

Going to the next day and the next day and the next day
When you start a game it is Wednesday, a day begins at 9:00 and ends at 16:00 then the times stop and nothing will happen, so take all the time you need. No this is not a bug, this is programmed because normally they will not pick up garbage after 16:00 (as one of the programmers said in some topic on the forum).
So we have to manually have to end day, we don't need to wait until it is a certain time, but can directly go to the next day... The button on the right side of the management area is the "next day button". The button next button is the speed up button, you can use that if you autopilot to pick up the garbage so you don't have to wait so long for picking up the garbage.


Amount of garbage
A small garbage truck can hold up to 10.000quantities of garbage. A small container if completely filled can hold 240quantities of garbage... so you can pick up 41 containers without any problem...
If you have selected my four routes we got (8+9+9+12) 38 containers so there is no problem picking them all up in one run without having to go to a dump.


It is pick up day :D
at the mini map you can see little green dots, normally they will be red. If the dot is red, this means that there is a bin, but not being emptied, if it is green it has been emptied.

Some tips and tricks while picking up the garbage
When stopping your truck try to stop just after the bin, so that if you put the camera next to truck, you can see the bin enterily. See the pictures.
This prevents that your worker will make a weird circle while walking to your truck.
I hate it when they dance, when they have to work

You only have to go to the dump until your truck is complety full or at least, the next container can't get everything in your truck. Also if you pick up normal garbage you first have to empty it before you can collect paper, with that same truck.

When picking up the garbage try to park as close as you can, (sometimes not possible), when you have to turn your truck, try to do this when your worker is walking towards the garbage bin, or when he is returning the garbagebin, when you ride the truck when the worker is walking towards the truck he will stop moving and will wait the lazy person.

Normally you always use the button, go to nearest bin, you use go to "next"bin, if that bin is not directly on your route, your worker will walk to the second nearest bin, for you to collect the garbage.

If he has returned the dustbin, let him stand on the back of the truck, this is faster than getting him in and out of the truck.

If you clicked on something like go to the garbage bin, and you want to drive again, click once somewhere (not a button) and you can drive again. I hope they will fix this glitch.


Compressing and dumping garbage
At the bottom right, you see your speed, the amount of garbage that is in your truck and the max amount of garbage that your truck can hold and what type of garbage you have at the moment.

there are also three buttons. From left to right.
Dumping, Compressing and parking brake.

Dumping, when you are at the dumping ground or a factory, you can dump your garbage over there, bear in mind that you go to the right places with the right garbage, so if you have generic garbage you go to the dumping ground, if you got paper you have to go to the reclycing plant. If you are at the wrong place with the wrong kind of garbage, you can't dump your garbage.

When you enter the dumping ground for the first time, since you started the game, it will like that your game is going to stop... don't touch anything wait a few seconds and the game will just work fine

Compressing, When garbage is thrown in the truck their is always space left (air), when you compress the garbage it will take less volume, so once in a while you need to compress the garbage. so it doesn't take so much volume.

And last the parking brake, if you have parking brake on, you can't drive, you can click on it or you press your spacebar (by default settings).

Traffic rules
To prevent you from gettin fined, you can do nearly anything you want, driving in the wrong direction, driving over grass and not the road..
But only speeding, driving one-way street the wrong way and red light is fined. Speeding is easy to see, when you see a sign with a speed on it, don't go faster than that speed or you will be fined.

One-way street is a small street, only car wide, when you see a square sign with an arrow your driving the good way, when you see a red round sign with a white retangle, your going to enter a one-way street the wrong way.

Red Light, the trafficlights, go from red, to red and yellow, to green, to green and yellow, to red again. You can press your W, when it is red and yellow. Most important is when do you get a ticket? When you cross the stop line, nothing happens. But when you cross zebra crossing, then you get a ticket for getting a red light. If it is green-yellow, stop!!! you will it will get red when you cross and you will get a ticket

Before you can do dump spots, make sure you have bought or can buy a "garbage crane truck".
You can buy the truck for 50.000.

Buying the dump spot license
Buying the dump spots is the same as buying a route license.
The amount of dumpsters will tell you how many garbage their will be dumped at that place

Planning dump spot
While buying is like the same as the routes, but planning and buying dumpsters isn't. Here is a big difference. First have a look at the screen of planning to pick up the dumpsters.
At the dumpsterstack we have got 6 holes. here we can drag a dumpster (you first have to buy a dumpster). As you can see there are 6 different containers so we do one of all, or whatever you like... in the printscreen you see that I have put 2 generic waste containers.
As you can see I didn't select a day, like in real life, a dumpster is there always so you can pick the dumpsters everyday you want. If you select a day it's just a reminder for you.

Picking up garbage at a dump spot
If you look at your minimap you see blue spots (sorry but in the printscreen you couldn't hardly see it, but they look like the dots with normal dumpster but these are always blue).
First you have to secure your garbage crane truck, do this by unfolding your legs. see the extra button in the red square.
Yes, this is a different game, so that is why you see 3 dumpsters instead of 2 as shown as in the previous screen
As you can see, an entire console will open, you can raise an lower your arm, move right and left, extend and withraw your arm, lower and raise your hook, unhook (if dumpster is fitted), and empty the dumpster.
As you can see under the hook there is a green dot, this is where your hook will be, try to hook up the dumpsters, so you need to get that green dot on top and in the middle of the dumpster, so it can hook on. Then raise your arm above the hole in your truck, lower a bit, so the dumpster is a little bit in your truck, now that hole will start to blink GREEN instead of red. If it blinks green, you can empty the dumpster. At last, you have to set the dumpster on it's place.
Take your time, it seems more difficult than it is.
Don't worry if some dumpster falls over, drive away and get back, the dumpsters are respawn again :D...

If you got two or more different garbage, (like generic and paper), the same rule as a normal garbage truck applies. you can have only one type at the same time in your truck, so if you emptied generic, you can only do other generic dumpster. you still can pick up other but can't empty them in your car

Sometimes, your truck will get damaged and needs to be repaired from level one you unlock the Repair van and costs 15,000.

When your truck gets damaged and you will see this on your screen:
---Preview needed---
When You don't have a repair van, you can still repair your truck, but it will cost you 1,000 as you can see on the screen bellow
So if the truck breaks down 15 times you have earned your repair van back.

Buying a repair van
When you are in the management area and then Garage, you can buy the repair van the same way as every truck. The repair van needs one worker to operate the repair van.

How to use your repair van
When your truck breaks down somewhere on the route, go to management area > Garage, and select your repair van and select drive. now you will need to drive to your truck that has broke down.
When you are near the truck, by your speed-o-meter (same as your truck) you see the repair button and press repair. Your Truck will now be repaired.

Also the repair van has got an extra tank for 250L of fuel, to refeul the trucks on the way.

If you begin the game, you can only pick up generic waste, this garbage needs to be dumped at a landfill. There are four landfills in the game, where you can own three of them, and the last one is operated by the NPC this is the Municipal Landfill.

Buying the landfil
Just like everything else you go to the management area, go to landfills and buy the one you want.
I recommend you to buy the sandstone quarry, for two reasons; The first reason that is because this is the biggest one, and also the cheapest one. The second reason is that this one is the closest one to your beginning streets and your starting garage.

If you have bought the landfill you see a new option that is called "GREEN". If you green your landfill, you can't use that landfill anymore, your garbage will be buried under a lot of sand and grass. And this will process your waste, after a while the garbage will be dissapeared, but you have to buy the landfill again. So as soon as you green your landfill, you can't use it anymore.

controlling your landfill
When you buy your landfill you get three vehicles with the landfill, A bulldozer, A Crawler Crane and A Dump truck. To control those vehicles, in the topleftcorner you see a spotmarker, "toggle camera menus". then select your landfill. If you selected your landfill, there will appear a steerring wheel, when you select the steeringwheel, you see your vehicles, when you click them you'll drive them. see the printscreen above.

With the bulldozer you can compress your garbage, by driving over the waste. As you can see at the moment there is some weird bug, so one of the two screens is lying to me about the compression of my landfill.

At the moment I don't know why you need the crane and the dumptruck (I think to dump the garbage at the incinerator).

There are 3 companies in the game, the biogas, the recycling Center and the incinerator.

Recycling Center
When you pick up paper or plastic waste, you need to go to the recycling center to dump the waste.

Biogas
When you pick up organic waste, you need to go to the Biogas to dump the organic waste.

Incinerator

Here I will say the advantages and disadvantages per thing like driving yourself, or let the NPC drive and pick up the garbage.


Drive or Auto-pilot

Update 9-11-2014
Added: Repair van
Changed: advantages and disadvantages
Changed: Getting the guide from gameversion 1.0.0.2 to version 1.0.0.3

Update 17-09-2014
Changed: routes, because of some experiences
Fixed: Grammar and other typmistakes

update 12-09-2014
Added: Companies
Added: Advantages and Disadvantages
Added: Game version

update 10-09-2014
Added: dump spots.
fixed some incorrect information

Extra
This is my first guide. I hope this guide helped you by starting the game.
I know that there are some bugs in this game at the moment, but in this guide, I pretended that this game is bug free, or I have made some comment where it was needed.

If you have any additions or improvements for this guide, please let me know, and I will ad them :D

Have fun while playing