Breaks down items in its pop group into their component parts with 100% efficiency. Thus, 1 10cm Autocannon would be converted into 400 Steel and 100 Electronics. When your recyclers got around to those items, the 400 Steel would transform into 1200 Iron and the 100 Electronics would become 200 Refined Crystals and 100 Synthetic Materials. The Synthetic Materials would eventually break down into 100 Gaseous Elements, 100 Industrial Chemicals and 100 Petrochemicals. As detailed below, the resulting Iron, Gaseous Elements, Industrial Chemicals and Petrochemicals would not be broken down any further. Caution is strongly advised. Your industrial ministers note that an isolated pop group should be used for recycling, as your Recycling Center workers are fanatical and have an insatiable appetite: they will disassemble just about anything they can get their pseudopods on. This would certainly cause extreme havoc if Recycling Centers were constructed in pop groups with important items. Your recyclers will dismantle anything except for Advanced Construction Materials, Fuel and any Advanced resource-class item. Base items such as Coal, Crystals and Water are also excluded, but not Improved versions such as Improved Crystals. Thus, Advanced Steel, Advanced Petroleum, Advanced Fuel, Advanced Construction Materials and so on would not be recycled, while Advanced Battle Displays would. Installations are never fed into the recycling hoppers. It is difficult to predict with certainty which items will be recycled first, and whether or not byproducts just received from another item will take priority over something else. Recycling Centers are self-sufficient, drawing energy from items brought to them from the general population along with solar, wind, tidal and other green energy sources. Each Recycling Center can produce 3000 tons of material (1 Steel consuming 2 of those tons as produced Iron), improved by your empire's technological advances in Industrial Science and Social Engineering. Your industrial advisors once again note that when deciding where to build Recycling Centers, CAUTION IS STRONGLY ADVISED.
Recycles unwanted items into their component parts.
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1st Generation Social Engineering
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