Material Recycler

Material Recycler is a device that lets Morgan to recycle any objects they find on Talos I into components for crafting in Prey (2017).

Overview
Recyclers are large machines used to convert unwanted loot into Materials for use in Fabricators.

Junk items are solely useful for recycling, and have no other purpose; but nearly any item the player has picked up can be fed into a Recycler and converted to raw Material, including even valuable items like advanced weapons.

Recycling as often as possible is a good way to consolidate unneeded loot and free up inventory space, as all raw Material stacks into only 4 inventory slots (one for each Material type: Organic, Mineral, Synthetic, and Exotic).

Trivia

 * When the game was initially released, it was possible for players to divide raw Materials and re-recycle them for virtually unlimited crafting. As of Patch 1.04, however, this loophole has been removed.