What percent does a green recycler give in Rust?

50% of an item's crafting cost. It rises to 60% once the Power Plant has 4 or more Heavy Fuses in.

How fast is a green recycler?

A cycle takes 5 s, or 4.5 s with 18 or more Heavy Fuses in. Each cycle recycles 10% of a stack, at least 1 item.

Where are green recyclers in Rust?

Airfield (2), Power Plant (2), Sewer Branch (2), Abandoned Supermarket, Arctic Research Base, Ferry Terminal, Giant Excavator Pit, Harbor, Jungle Ziggurat, Junkyard, Launch Site, Lighthouse, Military Tunnel, Mining Outpost, Oxum's Gas Station, Radtown, Satellite Dish, The Dome, Train Yard and Water Treatment Plant.

How much scrap does a green recycler give per minute?

Gears pay 10 scrap each at 50% and 12 at 60%. A cycle takes 2 of them, so that is 240 scrap a minute, or 288 with power and 320 with 18 or more Heavy Fuses in.

Rust Recycler: 50% to 60% Yield and Locations

Facts

Rate: 50%
Rate with power: 60%
Cycle: 5 s
Fastest cycle: 4.5 s
Fuses for 60%: 4
Fuses for 4.5 s: 18

Rates

of an item's crafting cost

What the green recycler gives back
Recycler	Gives back	Cycle (s)	What sets it
Unpowered	50%	5	The rate while the Power Plant has fewer than 4 Heavy Fuses in.
Powered	60%	5	Once the Power Plant has 4 or more Heavy Fuses in, every green recycler gives back 60%. With 18 or more in, a cycle takes 4.5 s.

Heavy Fuses and the grid

one grid for the whole server

Heavy Fuses in	Green	Yellow	Red
0 to 3	50%, 5 s	40%, 8 s	off
4 to 17	60%, 5 s	40%, 8 s	off
18 or more	60%, 4.5 s	40%, 8 s	75%, 4 s

Heavy Fuses go in at the Power Plant. They wear out, so the boost lasts only while enough of them stay in. A recycler locks in its rate and cycle time when you press start, so start it while the grid is up.

Where to find it

count per monument

Example: recycling Gears

a stack of 20

When	Rate	Cycle (s)	Scrap a Gear	Gears a cycle	Scrap a minute
0 to 3 Heavy Fuses in	50%	5	10	2	240
4 to 17 Heavy Fuses in	60%	5	12	2	288
18 or more Heavy Fuses in	60%	4.5	12	2	320

Scrap scales with the rate. The scrap number on an item page is its 50% figure.

Open the recycle calculator

What a green recycler gives for every item

832 items

Showing 50 of 832 items, most scrap first

What each item gives at 60%
Item	Always at 60%	Chance of one more	Scrap
Jackhammer36 scrap	×3	60%	36
Rifle Body30 scrap	×1	80%	30
Tree Lights30 scrap	×90	-	30
Electric Fuse24 scrap	Scrap only	-	24
Heavy Fuse24 scrap	Scrap only	-	24
Salvage Workbench Upgrade24 scrap	×3	-	24
Tech Trash24 scrap	×1	20%	24
Egg Basket18 scrap	×60	-	18
Pumpkin Basket18 scrap	×60	-	18
Semi Automatic Body18 scrap	×1 ×90	80%	18
SMG Body18 scrap	×1	80%	18
Gears12 scrap	×15	-	12
Large Backpack12 scrap	×60 ×2	40%	12
Metal Spring12 scrap	×1	20%	12
Nailgun12 scrap	×45	-	12
Star Tree Topper12 scrap	×90	-	12
Sheet Metal9.6 scrap	×120 ×1	20%	9.6
Metal Pipe6 scrap	×1	20%	6
Road Signs6 scrap	×1	20%	6
Decorative Tinsel3.6 scrap	×60	-	3.6
Decorative Baubels2.4 scrap	×60	-	2.4
Metal Blade2.4 scrap	×18	-	2.4
Empty Propane Tank1.2 scrap	×60	-	1.2
12 Gauge Buckshot	×1 ×3	50%	-
12 Gauge Incendiary Shell	×1 ×3 ×6	50%	-
12 Gauge Slug	×1 ×3	50%	-
2 Module Car	×60	-	-
2 Module Car Chassis	×60	-	-
3 Module Car	×60	-	-
3 Module Car Chassis	×60	-	-
4 Module Car	×60	-	-
4 Module Car Chassis	×60	-	-
40mm HE Grenade	×9	30%30%	-
40mm Shotgun Round	×1 ×4	20%50%	-
40mm Smoke Grenade	×9	30%	-
5.56 Rifle Ammo	×2 ×1	-	-
8x Zoom Scope	×30	-	-
Above Ground Pool	×120 ×1 ×300	80%	-
Accelerated Workbench Upgrade	×3	-	-
Acoustic Guitar	×60 ×6	-	-
Advent Calendar	×60 ×12	-	-
Aiming Module	×60 ×2	40%	-
Anchor	×150	-	-
AND Switch	×60	-	-
Animal Fence	×150	-	-
Animal Fence Gate	×300	-	-
Arctic Scientist Suit	×3 ×1 ×4	20%80%	-
Armored Cockpit Vehicle Module	×90 ×3	-	-
Armored Door	×12 ×3	-	-
Armored Double Door	×15 ×3	-	-

Per item recycled, at full condition. +N% is the chance of one more unit. Scrap is the average: its leftover fraction carries over to the next item. Damaged items return less.

Other recyclers

Recycler	Gives back	Where
Safe zone	40%	Outpost, Bandit Camp and Floating City recyclers. Always available, lowest rate.
Power Plant	75%	The red recycler at the Power Plant. Only runs with 18 or more Heavy Fuses in.

Methodology

Tested in game on our own server: the rate and cycle time of each recycler, what each Heavy Fuse count changes, and the yield of all 1,010 recyclable items at 40%, 50%, 60% and 75%. Monument counts come from full maps we generated. Tested on the current version of Rust.

Recycler Monuments Outpost Arbitrage Safe-zone Vendors

Recycler: common questions

What percent does a green recycler give in Rust?: 50% of an item's crafting cost. It rises to 60% once the Power Plant has 4 or more Heavy Fuses in.
How fast is a green recycler?: A cycle takes 5 s, or 4.5 s with 18 or more Heavy Fuses in. Each cycle recycles 10% of a stack, at least 1 item.
Where are green recyclers in Rust?: Airfield (2), Power Plant (2), Sewer Branch (2), Abandoned Supermarket, Arctic Research Base, Ferry Terminal, Giant Excavator Pit, Harbor, Jungle Ziggurat, Junkyard, Launch Site, Lighthouse, Military Tunnel, Mining Outpost, Oxum's Gas Station, Radtown, Satellite Dish, The Dome, Train Yard and Water Treatment Plant.
How much scrap does a green recycler give per minute?: Gears pay 10 scrap each at 50% and 12 at 60%. A cycle takes 2 of them, so that is 240 scrap a minute, or 288 with power and 320 with 18 or more Heavy Fuses in.