Trash Day Cleanup Guide: Clearing Trash as a Raccoon Crew

What Cleanup Means in Trash Day

Trash Day flips the usual cleanup fantasy: instead of tidying up, you are a raccoon crew emptying the world of trash for profit. The loop starts in Animal Control, where your squad escapes, steals a wagon, and begins collecting anything valuable that is not nailed down. Every can, dumpster, and yard is a potential payload, and the goal is to move that payload through six full-game areas toward Raccoon Paradise.

Because the game is physics-based, cleanup is never just grabbing items. A wagon that is overloaded, badly balanced, or parked on a hill will roll, tip, or lose its wheels. Good crews treat each run like a working route: scavenge an area, load deliberately, and move the wagon before hazards turn your cargo into scattered litter again.

High-Value Trash

Items like gold bars, microwaves, tires, and furniture are the backbone of a profitable run. Community summaries of the game highlight these bulky finds as the pieces worth building a wagon load around.

Small but Useful Gear

Not everything you collect gets sold. Planks, bungee cords, and repair tools such as the impact wrench can ride along in the wagon and pay for themselves the moment a wheel pops or a gap needs bridging.

Leave the Junk

Wagon space is limited. Loading every piece of literal garbage slows the crew down and makes the physics more chaotic without adding payout at the selling machine.

Organizing the Load

1. Scout the area first: Send one raccoon ahead to spot cans, dumpsters, and valuables while the others hold the wagon.
2. Load heavy items low: Keeping the center of gravity low makes the wagon far harder to tip on turns and slopes.
3. Balance left and right: An uneven load pulls the wagon sideways, which matters on narrow ledges and road crossings.
4. Secure with bungee cords: Where the physics allow, strap down the load so bumps and rockslides do not shed cargo.
5. Deposit at checkpoints: Drop valuable trash at checkpoint deposits along the route instead of risking the whole load in one long haul.

Keeping the Cleanup Moving

A cleanup run in Trash Day is a race against the level itself. Highway traffic can flatten a wagon mid-crossing, guard dogs chase raccoons away fromyards, and rockslides bury routes in falling rock. The crews that clean up efficiently are the ones that keep the wagon moving in short, safe legs rather than one greedy marathon.

Tip

Assign roles before each leg: one pusher, one steerer, one scout, and one defender who deals with dogs, bees, and thrown hazards. In solo play, do the same jobs in sequence instead of all at once.

Warning

Do not park the loaded wagon on slopes or in traffic lanes. Recovering an overturned wagon costs time, and a run-over load can scatter items back across the map you just cleaned.

From Cleanup to Payout

Collected trash only becomes progress when it is deposited. Haul your load to the selling machine and checkpoint deposits to convert finds into earnings, then spend the money at vending machines on wagon repairs, tools, or raccoon cosmetics. The full game, released on Steam on October 13, 2026, expands this loop across six areas, compared with the single area offered by the free demo.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Trash Day a cleaning game?

It is a physics-based co-op adventure about collecting and hauling trash, not a tidying simulator. The "cleanup" is what raccoon players do to the map: stripping it of anything valuable.

How many players can clean up together?

Up to six players in online co-op, and the game can also be played solo. Managing the wagon alone is harder than coordinating with a group.

Where does the collected trash go?

Valuable finds are deposited at checkpoints and sold at the selling machine for cash that funds repairs, tools, and cosmetics.