Landfill pollution

Landfill pollution is the ground contamination created when waste is dumped directly onto the map and left exposed. It is part of the waste-management side of Captain of Industry and matters most when using landfills or any other disposal method that leaves refuse in the open.

The practical way to deal with it is to cover dumped waste with a layer of a different material. This reduces the visible landfill area and helps keep the polluted surface from remaining exposed. In practice, players use this to manage large waste piles while limiting how much unusable ground is left behind.

• If you must dump waste onto the terrain, plan for a covering layer afterward.
• Use a different material as the top layer rather than leaving the waste exposed.
• Treat landfill areas as something to reclaim and conceal, not just expand indefinitely.