• Location: Industrial Ring, New Kourou
• Address: SW Industrial Ring Road 1
• Surroundings: Adjacent to the Federal Organic Waste Recycling Plant and the Federal Textile Recycling Plant.

The Federal Garbage Collection Center (FGCC) of New Kourou is a standardized state-run facility operated under the Federal Allotment Agency in the Gamma Age. As the city’s central intake, weighing, sorting, and redistribution hub within the Federal Waste & Recycling System (FWRS), it anchors the Confederation’s circular material flows.

Operating within the framework of Communardism, the FGCC prioritizes resource circularity, low energy draw, and minimal environmental impact. In the Gamma Age’s persistent material shortage, recycled feedstock from the FGCC is a strategic resource for construction, textiles, tools, and fertilizers—vital to keeping industry and agriculture running across all reservations. Sorted outputs are routed to federal processing plants via the Federal Courier Service under tasking by GAIA. There is no direct public drop-off; citizens interact with the system through neighborhood collections and municipal routing.

• Construction Materials: Last Frontier alloys and reinforced polymers; structural ribs from cargo-bay trusses; floor plates with anti-slip ship decking.
• Floors: 2 (ground-level process hall + administrative/mezzanine level)
• Design Aesthetic: Industrial, function-first. Wide-span hall, craneways, gravity chutes; shipyard-style safety striping and zone coding.
• Lighting (Perpetual Twilight; No Electric High-Bays): Sawtooth clerestories and prismatic light wells harvest constant skyglow; hooded oil lamps and baseboard Luminofera dualis runs provide even, low-draw illumination in deep zones and during low-sky periods.
• Ventilation / Odor Control (Passive): Cross-flow via wind scoops and thermal stack chimneys; odor beds (compost/charcoal biofilters) at exhaust points; no powered negative-pressure systems.

Ground Floor (Process Hall & Logistics)

• Security Gate & Weighbridge: Entry control, analog ticketing, tare/gross logging for Federal Courier Service (FCS) carts and municipal loads.
• Intake Bays (4): Covered docks for mixed, organics, bulky, and e-waste; spill kits and fire sand stations.
• Primary Sorting Line: Gravity hoppers, roller tables, permanent-magnet rakes (no eddy-current), manual pick stations; hand-crank transfer wheels between bays.
• Secondary Lines (2): Fines/organics line and metals/plastics refinement line; manual screw-jack balers and lever compactors (no electric drives).
• Hazard Cage: Locked enclosure for paints, solvents, acids; neutralization drums and logbook.
• Staging Yards (internal): Palletized bales/skips awaiting dispatch to federal plants.

Mezzanine / Second Floor (Control & Admin)

• Operations Gallery: Line-of-sight over process hall; analog boards + GAIA terminal for throughput stats.
• Administrative Offices: Plant Manager, FWRS compliance, records.
• Staff Facilities: Locker room, showers, break room, kitchenette.
• Restrooms (4): Staff W.C.s equipped with the AuroraSan System; two near the stair cores, two adjacent to Staff Facilities.

Perimeter & Yard

• Outbound Lanes: Marked lanes for dispatch to the Organic, Textile, Technological, and Wood plants.
• Stormwater & Leachate Traps: Grated channels to biofilter sumps; inspection hatches.

Patchwork, but disciplined. The center looks recycled because it is: riveted bulkhead plates from the Last Frontier sit beside timber struts and ceramic blocks; ghost stencils (“BAY-3”, “SUIT LOCKER”) show through fresh FWRS bands. Walkways are ship-deck offcuts; guardrails welded from mismatched ladder rungs; safety screens repurposed from shuttle cargo netting. Twilight drops in through sawtooth clerestories; after dusk, hooded oil lamps and baseboard runs of Luminofera dualis give an even, low-draw glow.

Movement is all exohuman + gravity mechanics: the clatter of roller tables, the scrape of chutes, the ratchet of hand-jack balers—no powered belts or fans. Air carries compost warmth and machine oil, tempered by passive biofilters (charcoal/compost beds) at stack chimneys. Yellow-black chevrons edge platforms; zone color bands (green = organics, blue = recyclables, red = hazmat) keep traffic intuitive. FWRS pictograms overlay older ship labels; clipboards hang beside GAIA readouts for analog redundancy. Despite the salvaged skin, the place feels orderly, repeatable, and energy-aware — a disciplined workflow built from second lives.

• Plant Manager (1): Overall operations, FWRS compliance, incident command.
• Weighmaster / Gate Clerk (1): Entry control, tare/gross logs, route tickets.
• Sorting Crew (30): Manual pickers by line (metals/plastics/textiles/organics), line marshals, baler handlers.
• Logistics & Yard (4): Dock marshaling, palletizing, outbound dispatch coordination with FCS.
• Admin & Records (2): Shift rosters, safety drills, throughput reporting, inter-agency comms.
• Trash-Tonis (≈10): Five paired teams of collectors; each drives a Hoo-drawn cart, responsible for both refuse and clandestine “specials.”
• (Collateral Duties): HazMat Officer (rotating), Safety Steward (per shift).

• Public Access: No walk-ins. Authorized municipal/FCS deliveries only; guided tours by appointment (off-peak).
• Shift Schedule:
  • 07:00–15:00 — Morning shift (municipal intake peak)
  • 15:00–23:00 — Evening shift (industrial & overflow)
  • 23:00–07:00 — Night shift (baling, deep clean, outbound staging)
• Operating Days: 24/7 processing; HazMat intake restricted to daylight hours.

Sorted streams and mandated destinations within the FWRS:

Educational & Outreach (offered):

• Workshops for New Kourou residents on source separation and hazard declarations.
• Awareness campaigns on contamination reduction and FWRS routing.

• Perimeter Wall: 3 m alloy fence with barbed crown
• Gate Control (Entry & Exit): Single guarded gatehouse operated by a Deputy of the Federal Sheriff; load slips stamped in an analog ledger, seals checked on inbound/outbound consignments.
• Exit Inspections: Conducted at the gatehouse by the Deputy — tool and pocket checks post-shift; random bale core sampling… to deter theft.
• Analog Alert System: Analog Siren System tied to Federal Sheriff’s Headquarters.
• Deputy Patrols: Scheduled passes through the Industrial Ring; incident logbook countersigned daily.

Legal interactions:

• GAIA work assignment to a sorting line, HazMat watch, or weighbridge during a surge week.
• Run a or attend at a citizen workshop on proper e-waste preparation to reduce line jams.
• Transport / Deliver Garbage as Trash-Tony

Illegal interactions:

• Skim precious-metal scrap from e-waste depop bins or swap bale tags.
• Forge weighbridge tickets to misroute high-value bales to a black-market yard.
• Stage a spill to access the HazMat cage during emergency confusion.

• Adventure Hook — Pieces in the Bale: During off-load at the local Garbage Collection Center, a Trash-Tony bale ruptures — spilling exohuman body parts. The Federal Sheriff seals the floor and deputizes the PCs to investigate discreetly. Trace the custody chain (gate ledgers, route tickets, seal stamps), retrace the cart’s loop, and interview the paired Trash-Tonis and line crew …

• Gamma Age
• Federal Confederation
• New Kourou
• Federal Waste and Recycling System
• Federal Organic Waste Recycling Plant of New Kourou
• Federal Allotment Agency
• Federal Courier Service
• Federal Wood Recycling Center (in the Federal Wood Plant in Morningstar)
• Federal Textile Recycling Plant (New Kourou)
• Federal Technological Recycling Plant (New Kourou)

Federal Garbage Collection Centers within the Federal Confederation:

• Federal Garbage Collection Center of New Kourou
• Federal Garbage Collection Center of Firetown
• Federal Garbage Collection Center of Hope
• Federal Garbage Collection Center of Morningstar