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Before you ask: The current way to get rid of items you don't need anymore is to put them into a wooden chest and shoot at it until destroyed.

There are two general directions:
- Recycling of (assembled) items (which this thread will go about)
- Recycling of (generated) waste/pollution. For example instead of pollution something produces waste as a new item. The waste cannot be destroyed like normal items. A good thread about this concept is for example:
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1677 New pollution mechanic
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5826 Valuable Byproducts
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=18238 Trash and (chemical) waste

This topic is more or less around the first direction, but there are so many ideas, that there is sometimes not a clear line between both. So forgive me, if there is a mix of ideas.

The actual opinion of the devs about a device to recylce items is (because of that), that there is so less material, which can be usefully recycled compared to the material that you produce, that it is currently not worth the afford to be implemented, cause it will have nearly no effect to the game-play. See viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3439&p=32722#p32722 or viewtopic.php?f=6&t=18364#p120784

But because this is suggested so often I made this thread. (my opinon about this is, that the need for this is so big, that is no way around it)

Of course - and as said - a simple recycling doesn't make sense at all. There needs to be some kind of "added effect". So if you want to make a new suggestion about this, please consider that the better recycling ideas would influence the game-play much more, for example if there would be a bigger benefit to recycle stuff. (which is the second direction - as you see, this topic is really dependent to others)

Ideas, which seems to go into the right direction:
- An recycler would help (new) players, that have overproduced some items (for example rails and now don't have stone anymore, but you will loose items of course). But this isn't such a good idea, see for example "better" suggestions about mining with a yield. For example: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=21216 Endless ore patches - which is in some way also a "recycling idea".
- Reduce pollution (waste related ideas), there are also some mods, that play/played around with that idea. Many forum members think that this is would be an interesting way to go. This will result in a mix of the two directions I already mentioned above.
- Recycling cylcles combined with production cycles, that miraculously create more items, than you put into. Just out of the pure energy. There are already some mods, that have that type of production (but to be honest I think this is not a very good game-play).

Related Collections

viewtopic.php?f=80&t=14710 Alien Juice / Handling of Corpses / Recycling Dead

Suggestions



viewtopic.php?f=6&t=84&hilit=recycl%2A Pollution ! [Very, very early post! It explains, where the idea of the pollution comes from.]
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=233 Recycle or Dump?
viewtopic.php?f=33&t=840 Recycle Center | Sorter
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=888 Item Recycling/Recycler/Scrap Yard (merged topics)
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1316 Recycler
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1886 Recycling
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1899 Dismantler/Recycler Bots
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2020 Request for a Diss-assembler / De-constructor
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2415 Recycling plant
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2422&hilit=recycl%2A Some suggestions(or may be even requests) [A statement of the devs, that a recyler was planned in two years ago, but
viewtopic.php?f=28&t=2698 Generic item recipe (recycler) [in Modding Interface requests - The reason, why it is quite difficult to mod this]
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3269 Dropping Items / Recycler
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3439 Disassembly Machine/disposing items/Incinerator/Recyling
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3273 Waste disposal
viewtopic.php?f=18&t=3808 Deconstruction of items into their components
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5473 Disassemble Items?
viewtopic.php?f=33&t=5546 Recycle/landfill(dump) mod request [In Ideas and Requests for Mods]
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6050 Deconstruction Machine
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6738 Dis-assembler.
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7068 trash bins
viewtopic.php?f=33&t=7500 Recycling obsolete items [In Ideas and Requests for Mods]
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7810 Idea: Recycler station
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7963 Recycle Center, Radar Controlled Tank
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=8471 Recycleing
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=13483 Recycler?
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=18238 Trash and (chemical) waste
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=18364 Disassembling machine
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=21071 An Actual Trash Can
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=21292 Item Destroying
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=26444 Recycler / disassembly machine
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=26878 Intermidiate objects with a lifetime
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=27259 Upgrades & Modules [The first part is relevant]
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=28651 Item burner
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=32564 Incinerator
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=33201 Recycle burner inserters/miners in smelters
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=33897 Using Unused Items (Waste) as Energy
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=33997 dismantle unused objects to recover raw materials
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=35889 Pollution and waste
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=37023 Remove guns and green ammo
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=37104 Trash, Garbage, Refuse
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=38509 Make pollution management matter in endgame
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=40470 Delete every thing
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=41644 Waste production Mod/Development proposal
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=42746 Wasted water, shovel and water drill or miner
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=43844 Item Shredder! (For scrap parts)
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=46016 Trashcan in the inventory + Drone-slots in personal hangar
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=46809 Recycling machine





Related

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=805 Body Recycling
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7963 Recycle Center, Radar Controlled Tank
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=14706 Recycled Corpses (what to do with them)

Mods

viewtopic.php?f=40&t=2578 Anti-Pollution-Mod v0.2.0 [v0.9 !!!]
viewtopic.php?f=87&t=3612 Scrap Mod - now with recycling! [v0.11 !!]
viewtopic.php?f=93&t=7548 Air Filtering
viewtopic.php?f=87&t=10247 Recycling Plant [v0.11 !!]
viewtopic.php?f=93&t=24119 Trashcan

https://mods.factorio.com/mods/vanatteveldt/recycling

http://xkcd.com/1821/

Why has nobody acknowledged this? We NEED it!

I find it a little strange :

All assembly machines are working perfectly ( no rejected goods)

There are no left overs by the assembly machines.

The drills do not produce any excavation material.

The smelting machines do not produce any slag.

No toxic wastes are produced by the refinery or the chemical factories.

And last but not least : The science labs burn the science packages without any leftovers.

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A very big waste dump is needed IHMO.

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After the human visitor has launched a thousand or more rockets and finally decides to leave the planet ... it may look like this ...

I can understand the devs saying there is not really a need for disassembling machines. But since we are all unhappy with killing a chest containing unused items, we should think about disassembling in the inventory. It should be easy to implement and doesnt make the game more complicated. Simply give us half of the resources back and everything should be fine.

Please, consider and implement a not complicated chain of disposal of unnecessary items. Or the incinerator, once studied the technology or a small automatic / processing plant, which produced a certain percentage of resources expended (for example, from a stone furnace or a manipulator).

I think converting unwanted items to landfill seems a simple and reasonable thing to do.

A related question ... should any of these by-products be toxic to the player? I have long thought that standing next to a uranium processor should start to damage the health of the player and perhaps carrying the toxic by-products should also give a small health effect. Perhaps the landfill made from by-products should be slightly toxic and mean there are areas where they player cannot go.

I like the idea of items being disassembled back into their base-parts. An electric pole is turned back into copper wires and wood, copper wires could be placed into furnaces and turned back into plates.