Great game! Can totally see the incremental feel play out nicely here. The recycling fantasy seemed to work with me (oddly enough). I thought the machine was very slow though, maybe it doesn't have to take that long?
Also, just a random suggestion: I feel like you can play the scrap metal / sifting angle where you have to manually smash the components and find the valuable parts by hand (like someone who's broke, instead of sign flipping) and eventually upgrade to having that multi tool to sell the components intact for more money, and eventually just having automation machines scrap stuff for you like you have on the bottom right. Feels like it would be a good progression to me. Just a thought!
Cool game!