What produces Recyclabes?

[Peter34]

I know that the Maintenance Building has an alternate recipe, that produces Recyclables, and it can be set to use that preferentially, until it's backed up, then it switches seamlessly to the other one.

So far, so good.

But all of a sudden, earlier today, I saw that my already far too over-worked trucks were hauling Recyclables out of my 6 tier-2 Labs.

I've set up U-Belts to gather them into one place, to relieve the burden on my truck fleet, but which other Buildings will suddenly give me a nasty surprise by farting out an output that makes by busy trucks even busier?

[RawCode]

there is little "mortar and pestle" icon in the left, if you press it, game will display you ALL recipes.

[tadeos_trollhammer]

left<>right all the same to me :D

[cancer352]

Recyclables are very useful, you get iron and copper (and glass) without using your mines. Store surplus copper for the later game.
All outputs of the different buildings can be found at the recipes.
If your trucks are too busy build more trucks, build long distance belts or switch off some factories for a certain time. Good luck.

[Bluetooth the Pirate]

Recycling is good. It means that the huge amount of resources that get eaten up by research and maintenance can be recovered, with the right research and edicts I'm at 70% and I'm not in the last research phase yet.

Here's what you do, put a storage for each kind of scrap on the recycler output (use belts because the spacing isn't right to just plug them in) and one near the smelter belts for each material (iron/steel, copper, glass, gold) then you use a belt balancer to put scrap of the appropriate type right on the same belt as the ore you're using (raw or crushed depending on furnace level.) it doesn't matter if the scrap and ore are intermingled, so long as the recipes are turned on in the smelter it can handle a mixed belt, you should set the priority on the balancer so that the scrap is used first, that'll make sure the recycling doesn't back up.

The most sensible thing I've found is to build the recycling plant the labs and the maintenance in the same area, the small flow of recyclables from the settlement is easy to handle by truck, and the science and maintenance recipes tend to use similar components.

You start getting broken glass out of the recycling once there's glass in the recipe for the science packs (L3). I haven't gotten this far but I assume gold comes out once there's gold in either the maintenance or science inputs.

[IronSides]

Originally posted by RawCode:

there is little "mortar and pestle" icon in the left, if you press it, game will display you ALL recipes.

to me it's a bowl and whisk.

[CrazedTrucker]

Originally posted by Peter34:

I know that the Maintenance Building has an alternate recipe, that produces Recyclables, and it can be set to use that preferentially, until it's backed up, then it switches seamlessly to the other one.

So far, so good.

But all of a sudden, earlier today, I saw that my already far too over-worked trucks were hauling Recyclables out of my 6 tier-2 Labs.

I've set up U-Belts to gather them into one place, to relieve the burden on my truck fleet, but which other Buildings will suddenly give me a nasty surprise by farting out an output that makes by busy trucks even busier?

wait until you're making washing machines and crap for you're city.. you'll be swimming in broken glass

[Kaery]

Originally posted by Peter34:

I've set up U-Belts to gather them into one place, to relieve the burden on my truck fleet, but which other Buildings will suddenly give me a nasty surprise by farting out an output that makes by busy trucks even busier?

Not sure how you managed to get through the last update without noticing, but every lab above T1 will give out recyclables as soon as recycling is researched. That's not new.

But as for the surprise: Maintenance can (recipe, so optional), every lab higher than T1 will, recyclables collection from your settlement will (as soon as you supply anything besides food. Medical supplies, not sure) and finally, a shredder that is processing Retired Waste or Solar Cells will also. Those are all the sources of recyclables.

[Peter34]

Dudes! Someone necro'ed a 21 months old thread.

[Kaery]

Now I see that. xD Fooled me.