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  • 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 →
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Residual Waste Sorter

Residual Waste Sorter

WorldObject

A specialized machine that separates mixed residuals into compost, garbage and concentrated pollutants for disposal or decontamination.

Weight5000 gMax stack1SkillMechanics Lv 4StationAssembly Line

Notes

The Residual Waste Sorter is an industrial machine that processes mixed residuals into compost, garbage, and concentrated pollutants for safe disposal or decontamination. It is a placed object with an 18x4x7 footprint and requires a Tier 3 enclosed room with at least 500 m³ of free volume. Because it demands high-tier building materials, prioritize upgrading your workshop's room quality before building this sorter to ensure it functions within the recycling chain.

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 Residual Waste Sorter / hour (base)

As a placed object

RoomIndustrialSize18×4×7
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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