did you try a run without the panels?
sooo. I just played through on a new save and I noticed that the ‘scavenge’ actions for food and water are now ‘persistant’, with each one unlocking a ‘take’ food/water action. I’m wondering if because of your old save they are now not available because of the persistance and you not having done them means that they never unlocked the repeatable ones. As for the recycler… I have no idea.
The game is supposed to migrate things like that (including the recyclers - it's complicated, but stuff with them changed in the background), but it seems there may have been an issue with some of the migration from 0.4.1 to 0.4.5. I've put a fix into the next update (v0.4.5.11, should be coming out tomorrow) which should sort the recycler issue. I'll need to look into the Take Food/Water problem.