In Schedule 1, managing your drug operation efficiently requires careful attention to numerous details.
Among the various helpers available to streamline your business, the Cleaner stands out as an invaluable asset.
Working generates a serious amount of waste. Almost every operation, from sowing seeds to combining ingredients for drugs, produces waste that must be disposed of.
Without help, you’ll be too busy cleaning up after yourself to concentrate on more lucrative activities. A Cleaner automates this tedious process, freeing you to concentrate on growing your criminal enterprise.
Hiring Your First Cleaner In Schedule 1
A Cleaner can be hired as follows:
- Reach Hoodlum Level 5 to be able to get the illegal warehouse
- Go upstairs in the warehouse to see Manny
- Pay anywhere from $500-$1,000 for signing
- Have a suitable property (Cleaners cannot work in the motel or Chinese restaurant)
- You should own either the Bungalow ($6,000), Barn ($25,000), or Docks Warehouse ($50,000); a cleaner can work in one of these properties.

Setting Up Cleaners In Schedule 1
Here’s what to do after hiring a Cleaner to get them to work:
- Go to your property and meet them there
- Put $100 in their suitcase on the bed (daily wage required to be paid in cash, not card)
- Consider loading enough cash for a couple of days for convenience
- Press 9 to activate your management clipboard
- Hover over your Cleaner and press E to manage
- Assign them to the bed up to three trash cans

Optimizing Trash Can Placement
Trash can placement is an essential part of a Cleaner’s efficiency:
- Buy trash cans from Dan’s Hardware for $25 each
- Place them near workstations that create the most trash
- Hold the management clipboard over the trash can to see the green coverage circle
- Spread the trash cans throughout the whole property
- Each Cleaner can only work on three trash cans at a time
- Get multiple Cleaners for huge properties like warehouses

Fixing Non-active Cleaners
If your Cleaner isn’t working, attempt:
- Check payment status, confirm their daily wage is being paid
- Verify if there’s enough trash to be picked up
- Communicate with the cleaners themselves as to why they aren’t working
- Check if the Cleaner has room to move around while collecting trash
- If there are technical problems, update and verify
- If you need to report a bug, do it on the Schedule 1 official Discord