Recycler

The Recycler is unlocked at the Laboratory, and provides a way to convert excess resources or machinery into Residue, which may in turn be reconverted by the Recycler into other resources or machinery.

It should be noted that in Abandoned worlds the recycler produces 0.00001 tar for every 1 Residue produced.

Resources
Resources may be converted into (or produced from) Residue as dictated by the following table, with no Residue being lost during conversion.

*Resources are displayed as whole numbers, but decimals are recorded and remembered.

Machinery
Machinery may be converted into the amounts of Residue shown in the following table. As with normal building, the Residue cost to produce machinery increases by the base value (Residue Produced per Unit) for each unit already owned. This means that spending Residue to build your first crystal miner will cost 32,000 Residue, and the second will cost 64,000. The amount of Residue produced doesn't change.

Trivia
Although the effect isn't nearly as profound as that observed in Abandoned worlds, real-life recycling does cause some pollution. However, the process also produces some useable energy to replace the use of fossil fuels. It also requires less energy and processing to create new products from recycled materials than from raw, effectively offsetting the carbon emissions produced.