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I think it would be nice to find the ways to control pollution in the game same like in real life.
So what ways did people invent to stop pollution spreading?

Either using Efficiency modules to minimize energy draw and hence by extension pollution generated, or just clearing out all biter nests within my pollution cloud and maintaining that perimeter with periodic biter nest sweeps.

I was aiming we could make something new.
Example :Today people use expensive filters that collect toxic waste in to barrels and then they transport them somewhere else like in undergrounds or drop them in to sea.

Adding filters to buildings might be tricky. A simple way would be to create a new set of buildings with filter and a complete new set of recipies identical to the old ones with an extra output of filtered dirt. Or clean filter -> dirty filter, although adding 2 inserters to every assembler would be painfull. They should also probably be more like nuclear fuel. One filter lasts a while.

Maybe combine with with mega assemblers that are slightly larger (4x4 or 5x5?) and run multiples of each recipie. E.g. instead of producing one transport belt it produces 5 in parallel.

Trees capture CO2 in real life. Some people have made mods that allow growing trees. Some of these could reduce polution.

There are mods for this, i have seen some air scrubber mod and also bobmods has modules that reduce pollution and energy consumption.

Moving from steam energy into solar or nuclear also helps a lot, also using vanilla efficiency modules reduces pollution since pollution is calculated directly from energy consumption afaik.

https://mods.factorio.com/mods/TheSAguy/Bio_Industries

a mod specifically for extending the game with 3 levels of pollution control.
1. replanting trees.
2. basic air scrubbing.
3. advanced air scrubbing.