Sanitation Expert is the Rare toxic variant of the Engineer in Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare and Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2. He has a toxic aura which damages nearby enemies, and his attack inflicts toxic damage overtime too. However, in Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2, he does not have any toxic aura, and can only inflict toxic damage with his primary weapon. He was released in the Legends of the Lawn DLC
All-out war with the Plants is messy business. Thankfully, the Sanitation Expert is here to clean that mess up. It may not be glamorous (we don't pay him), but nothing beats a hard day's work and a job well done. Thanks Sanitation Expert!
In-game description[]
His Toxic Trash launcher deals toxic damage over time.
AI Health[]
Easy: 75
Normal: 100
Hard: 125
CRAAAAZY: 150
Primary weapon[]
His primary weapon is the Toxic Trash. It deals 35 (40 when upgraded) impact and critical damage and 18 splash damage in addition to continuous toxic damage to plants.
The Sonic Grenade is a grenade that, when thrown, will stun plants in a small radius for a short time and forces BurrowingChompers out from the ground.
An alternate ability of the Sonic Grenade, the Proximity Sonic Mine is a landmine which can stun plants for about five seconds when they come close to it. It makes Chompers come out of their Burrow ability if they are using it. This can be very useful for defending a teleporter or trying to escape from plants.
The Jackhammer allows for quicker movement but at the cost at not being able to use your other abilities, though you can still fire your primary weapon, and if you bump into a plant, the plant will suffer knockback and light damage.
An alternate ability of the Jackhammer, the Turbo Jackhammer functions the same as the Jackhammer except that it travels faster, but lasts for a shorter amount of time.
The Sonic Grenade is a grenade that, when thrown, will stun plants in a small radius for a short time and forces BurrowingChompers out from the ground.
An alternate ability of the Sonic Grenade, the Proximity Sonic Mine is a landmine which can stun plants for about five seconds when they come close to it. It makes Chompers come out of their Burrow ability if they are using it. This can be very useful for defending a teleporter or trying to escape from plants.
The Jackhammer allows for quicker movement but at the cost at not being able to use your other abilities, though you can still fire your primary weapon, and if you bump into a plant, the plant will suffer knockback and light damage.
An alternate ability of the Jackhammer, the Turbo Jackhammer functions the same as the Jackhammer except that it travels faster, but lasts for a shorter amount of time.
Weapon upgrades[]
Moldy Sandwich[]
A week-old sandwich helps you reload faster... somehow...
Bigger Cans[]
More spacious garbage cans help to increase your ammo capacity.
Trash Compactor[]
What an incredible smell you've discovered! Upgraded compactors mean more damaging, trashy goodness in every shot.
Strategies[]
With the use of the Sonic Grenade, the Sanitation Expert is capable of doing lots of damage, both to single and groups of plants alike. Critical hits can do a lot of damage, so good aim pays off with this variant. This is one of those Engineers that is just as good at offense as it is at support. As long as you are within range of your opponent(s), You will continually be doing damage thanks to the Sanitation Expert's toxic aura.
Sanitation Expert in the Too Fast, Too Noxious Mystery Portal image
Sanitation Expert in-game
In other languages[]
Please note that only official translations are used.
Language
Name
Description
English
Sanitation Expert
Traditional Chinese
衛生專家
French
Expert nettoyeur
German
Entsorgungsfachmann
Italian
Perito netturbino
Polish
Sprzątacz
Brazilian Portuguese
Especialista em Saneamento
Spanish
Experto en limpieza
Trivia[]
In Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare, he had the second highest critical damage of the Engineers at 40, only being beaten by the Painter at 48.
He was the last toxic character to be added and the only one to be added in DLC content. However, this only applies to Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare.
Similarly to most of the other Engineers, his facial hair appears to have been removed in Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2.
He is the only toxic zombie variant to not have with a toxic aura but only in Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2.
In the zombie mission "You Are Cordially Invited...", there is a Sanitation Expert named Barth (a pun on the word "barf") who will help the player find the location of Dr. Zomboss' secret lair if they beat his time at shooting gnome targets. However, once the player has done this, Barth is about to tell the location of the lair, but gets distracted by a Potato Mine next to him. He looks at the Potato Mine, looks at the player (with a worried expression) and is then launched over a hedge by the Potato Mine. However, even if the player doesn't beat his time, he says "You no beat Barth's time. But I will still show you anyways!"
If the Potato Mine is destroyed before the quest is complete, then he will still look at the location of where the Potato Mine was as the player still hears chittering sounds, even though it was destroyed, and then he will still fly up into the air while groaning.
His name is very much the opposite of what he really is, as he is the Sanitation Expert, yet he doesn't look very sanitized himself.