Waste Certificates
Waste Certificates
In Businessgame, Waste Storage Certificates define your corporation's legal right to store byproducts in your warehouses. Heavy manufacturing produces three waste streams: Trash, Wastewater, and Radioactive Waste.
1. How Waste Certificates Work
A Waste Certificate is not a fine or penalty fee. Instead, each active certificate grants your corporation a fixed storage allowance for that specific byproduct type:
- Production Hard Stop: If your total stored waste reaches your maximum certified storage capacity, all manufacturing facilities producing that waste type will immediately halt production until capacity is freed or expanded.
- Clearing Storage Bottlenecks: You can restore active manufacturing by processing waste (via Waste Plants or Water Treatment Plants), selling waste on the market, or purchasing additional certificates.
2. Certificate Types, Capacity Increments & Price Scaling
Purchasing additional certificates increases your maximum storage limit. Each additional certificate for a byproduct type scales exponentially at 1.5x the previous certificate's price, up to a maximum price cap:
| Byproduct Waste Type | Default Starting Certificates | Storage Allowance Per Certificate | Base Cost (Cert #2 / #1) | Price Scaling Multiplier | Maximum Certificate Price Cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trash | 1 Free Cert | +10,000 Units / Cert | €25,000 (Cert #2) | 1.5x per next cert | €500,000 max / cert |
| Wastewater | 1 Free Cert | +10,000 Units / Cert | €50,000 (Cert #2) | 1.5x per next cert | €1,250,000 max / cert |
| Radioactive Waste | 0 Starting Certs | +2,500 Units / Cert | €1,000,000 (Cert #1) | 1.5x per next cert | €25,000,000 max / cert |