ℹ️ About

The lot challenge Reduce and Recycle from the Eco Lifestyle EP adds several features to waste management. This mod builds up on those features and adds brand new ones to make the experience of managing waste more immersive.

♻️Features

• The Reduce and Recycle lot challenge is now added to all residential lots by default and can't be removed. All households will produce waste, and external trash cans will no longer have infinite capacity.
• A waste manager will come empty your sims' outdoor trash cans every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at around 6am. If you were on a different lot, you'll get a notification when you arrive home to let you know they stopped by.

• If you're in a pinch and can't wait until the Waste Manager comes around, you can request Waste Collection from the Hire Services menu in the phone or by clicking a full outdoor trash can. Requesting the service directly costs money.

• The Empty Trash interaction is no longer available on outdoor trash cans.
• Adding trash to a trash can that is nearing its full capacity will no longer spawn garbage piles around it.
• Outdoor trash can capacity has been increased.
• Dumping food from a dish will now properly increase the amount of trash inside the trash can.
• Sims will no longer get random trash piles added to their inventories when doing certain interactions.
• Throwing away and cleaning interactions will now check if the required objects are available. Sims will no longer pick up trash and immediately drop it when all nearby trash cans are full. If a dish still contains food, both a trash can and sink are required, and sims will no longer throw their dishes away.

• Objects can no longer be dragged into outdoor trash cans if they're full. This was already the case for indoor trash cans.
• Dishes can no longer be dragged into trash cans. They can still be dragged into sinks.
• Selling or kicking a trash can while it's not empty will cause the garbage inside to "spill" (trash piles will spawn around the object). The fuller the trash can, the more garbage will be spilled.

• Trash cans that were knocked over will no longer visually reset on lot load.
• The "Kick" interaction is now available on all outdoor trash cans. IMPORTANT: not all trash cans have the proper animations, and the ones that don't will snap into position when they're knocked over/picked up (check the gif below).

📅Planned Features

These features may or may not be added to the mod in the future.

• Add a menu to allow the player to disable/tweak certain features of the mod.
• Create a base-game compatible version of the mod.

⚠️Compatibility

This mod requires the Eco Lifestyle expansion pack.

This mod is incompatible with any mod that also overrides the following resources: