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  • Byproducts: nearly every recipe now leaves waste behind, so recipe pages list byproducts alongside ingredients.
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Industrial Waste Sorter

Industrial Waste Sorter

WorldObject

A multi-stage recycling system that handles complex industrial waste streams. Combining electricity separation, carbon processing, and mesh filtration, it extracts electronic waste, plastics, and hazardous pollutants into distinct categories for treatment and recovery.

Weight5000 gMax stack1SkillMechanics Lv 4StationAssembly Line

Notes

The Industrial Waste Sorter is an advanced machine for processing complex waste streams into separate categories such as electronic waste, plastics, and hazardous pollutants for treatment and recovery. It requires placement in an enclosed room of at least Tier 3 with 500 m³ of free volume, making it a mid-to-late-game object tied to high-quality industrial infrastructure. Because it handles pollution management, consider coordinating its placement near other industrial stations to consolidate waste processing within a single, well-ventilated facility.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe
IngredientQtyType
Iron Plate20item
Gearbox6item
Iron Gear12item
Copper Plate6item
Fabric20category
Piston4item
Lubricant8item
Reinforced Concrete8item

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe
MaterialQty / craft
Iron Scrap3.58
Crushed Mixed Rock2.56
Textiles0.32
Copper Scrap0.1
Chemical Waste0.06
Bio Residue0.05

Approximate โ€” a category ingredient's salvage value depends on the item actually used.

Crafting waste collects in the station's garbage output and must be hauled away or recycled โ€” see the Garbage & Recycling guide.

Crafting

Crafting stats
Labor600 calories
Craft time15 min
Throughput4 Industrial Waste Sorter / hour (base)

As a placed object

RoomIndustrialSize14×4×7
Viewer
Room requirements
IndoorsIn an enclosed roomRoom tierTier 3Room volume500 m³

Recycling & waste

Salvages into (per unit)

The same salvage value leaks out as garbage when this item is consumed in crafting.

How garbage, sorting & recycling work

Total raw to craft this

Steps73Total labor18495.52 calTotal time238.06 min

Approximate โ€” category ingredients and any production cycles are counted as raw.

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