🆕 Updated for Eco 14 — “Garbage & Recycling” — this server and these numbers now reflect the new version. What changed →
  • Byproducts: nearly every recipe now leaves waste behind, so recipe pages list byproducts alongside ingredients.
  • Garbage & recycling: waste sorts from mixed garbage down to pure materials, and can be recycled back into stock.
  • Pollution has four kinds: acid rain, chemical, soil and heavy mineral, each settling into the ground differently. Pollution guide →
  • Modules reworked: upgrades are now Basic / Advanced / Modern / Specialty, one per slot, driving the same bonus system as talents. Module guide →
  • Fresh water: machines need it — water drawn from the ocean has to be desalinated first.

The character calculator has been updated for these changes. Read the garbage & recycling guide →

Food Scrap

Food Scrap

Recovered food scrap from a sorting process.

Weight15000 gMax stack10Carried on back

Notes

Food Scrap is a waste item recovered from sorting mixed garbage, weighing 15 kg per unit and stacking to 10. It is classified as a garbage block and is solid, diggable, and can be placed as a wall, but its primary purpose is as an ingredient in the Compost Food Scrap recipe. A practical tip: since uncontained garbage blocks pollute the ground, processing these scraps into compost is an effective way to reclaim useful materials while reducing soil contamination.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

As a block

SolidDiggableWall

Recycling & waste

As a garbage material
FamilyMixed BiowasteSorter catalystDirt

Recycled from (40 of 217)

How garbage, sorting & recycling work

Categories

Used in

See also

Bio ResidueCeramic ScrapChemical PollutantChemical WasteCompostCopper Scrap