Recycling

The Recycling Plant turns buildable industrial objects from Station Cargo into recoverable physical BOM leaves. Recovery is deterministic, carries fractions between jobs, and stays within the configured 35–65% recovery curve.

Jobs move through one sequential path: Station Cargo → Recycling Queue → Recovery Bay. At Plant level 2, compatible objects can be grouped into a mixed batch. If the Recovery Bay fills, the job pauses; cancelling returns only the unprocessed objects and keeps materials already recovered.

Credits, Aether, blueprints, licenses, research, and elapsed time are never recoverable. The Recovery Bay can be connected to the Logistics Hub after you configure and activate a compatible route.