TL;DR
Turn items into landfill.What ?
Currently the recipe for landfill is 20 stone. I suggest changing the recipe to be 10 stone and 10 any, where the any slot prefers any item other than stone, but will still accept stone. If this priority would cause too much extra programming for filters etc it could just be a second landfill recipe you select for the machine where the any slot is anything but stone.Why ?
The topic of recycling has come up many times and a major sticking point often seems to be preventing cheesing by recycling products from modules that could actively gain more resources than were put in. Yet the main reason for wanting recycling is to better dispose of unwanted items rather than filling and shooting a box.The reason I think this proposal works better than others previously suggested is:
- Landfill is not a key resource so avoids the issue of cheesing to have a positive feedback loop with modules
- It still requires some stone so doesn't eliminate the need for this resource
- You could add a polution penalty for non-stone items to further discourage cheesing if it was a concern still
- It mirrors real life where often the solution to waste is burying it in landfill