W&R Soviet Republic : Once you get over the initial brain damage, it's great

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DrSunshine: Mar 23, 2009; Did I just say that out loud~~?!!!

Is it ever profitable to import waste, recycle it, and then sell it back? If so, which is better for this - plastic waste or metal scrap? I've never quite mathed it out, but in my latest run I tried it for a while but found that the margins were actually pretty bad given the conversion ratio.

I want to build my republic on a pile of garbage.

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 09:03

DrSunshine: Mar 23, 2009; Did I just say that out loud~~?!!!

Mister Bates posted:

I also thought about doing this, and I think the margins are slightly better for plastic waste, but I am also pretty sure that for either of them, you're barely breaking even - on paper you get some profit out of it, but bear in mind you also have to consider the fuel cost to transport the waste and the power usage to operate the recycling facility.

It is still slightly cheaper than importing the equivalent amount of finished plastic or steel, but the difference is miniscule - for domestic use you are better off just importing the finished product.

There's an alternative, though - you get paid for importing burnable waste, which you can then feed into a waste-to-energy incinerator and sell the power you generate by burning the trash you got paid to take. You also get paid to import ash, which decays rather quickly, so you could theoretically import it just to let it decay.

You get paid to import sewage, too, so I guess you could make money by importing and treating sewage (or importing it and dumping it directly into the ocean, for higher profit margins).

Finally, you get paid a lot of money to import hazardous waste, enough that you still turn a drat solid profit even if you are running it through waste treatment and importing the chemicals for it.

Thanks! This is the answer I was looking for.

So I could just set up a remote waste treatment/storage somewhere safely far away from my residential areas and probably just turn a decent profit doing that.

I also thought about setting up a nuclear waste storage industry. The idea crossed my mind the moment I saw the prices for nuclear waste: "You mean I can just make money for importing this stuff and dumping it somewhere??"

Poil posted:

Is it possible to import enough garbage that you can feed your industry on the recycled materials rather than digging them out of the ground?

This is the dream. Import the waste to turn it into materials, recycle our sewage into fertilizer to grow food. Eat the food we need, export the rest or turn it into booze and export it to the foreigners. The circle of life.

DrSunshine fucked around with this message at 18:27 on Feb 2, 2024

# ¿ Feb 2, 2024 18:24

DrSunshine: Mar 23, 2009; Did I just say that out loud~~?!!!

At last, the third Five-Year Plan is complete, and after investing 3.5 million labor-hours, 10 million tonnes of steel, 58.4 million tonnes of concrete, and mortgaging off the future of our republic to the IMF, our grand shipping terminal and industrial dockyard complex, complete with its own independent RMBK nuclear reactor and steel plant, is finally finished and fully operational! Comrade General Secretary, what riches shall our grand industrial navy of cargo ships convey?

Trash, comrades. Glorious trash. :commissar:

# ¿ Feb 3, 2024 01:09

DrSunshine: Mar 23, 2009; Did I just say that out loud~~?!!!

Anime Store Adventure posted:

https://www.sovietrepublic.net/post/report-for-the-community-93

They added more people all over! Neat.

Oh that's nice. I always thought it looked really odd to see roads and farms being worked on with lonely self-driving machines. I will be happy to see my fields tended by hard-working socialist peasants, collectively sweating towards a brighter tomorrow!

# ¿ Feb 26, 2024 20:31

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