The Plasma Arc Reactor is, in effect, a powerful furnace that is maintained at very high temperatures and that provides power by combusting objects placed within, while melting down salvageable materials to be reclaimed. It is a complicated piece of machinery with many functional parts.

This is where smaller individual objects such as bags of garbage can be directly fed into the shredder. It has a safety scan to prevent living organisms from being inserted.

This belt feeds objects into the standard intake to be sorted before reduction. Typically, disposal chutes empty their cargo directly on the intake belt to be processed. There is a safety scan on the belt that shuts it down when living organisms are detected.

This belt-fed automated processor sorts objects into the shredder (for items that are small enough to be shredded) or the compactor (for objects too large to be reasonably shredded).

A series of strong blades grinds small materials into even smaller bits.

A compression system crushes larger objects that do not pass through the shredder feeder down to size.

After passing through the shredder or compactor, objects then are dropped into the pre-heat chamber, which brings them up to an optimum preparation temperature. This reduces basic materials immediately, and pressure vents capture released gases to process for storage or other use.

Remaining items are then dropped into the primary reactor chamber where electrical arcing superheats the environment to the point of plasma gasification, reducing materials to component gases, metals, or black glass that can be recycled efficiently into new objects.

These generate power from the flow of gas attempting to escape the reactor core, providing power in order to continue the reaction.

This extracts metal and glass from the reaction chamber and produces ingots that can be used in autolathes and similar machinery to produce new raw goods.

These recollect gases that escape the chambers at various temperatures and condense them in preparation for pressurization.

These collect gases from the condensation chambers and pressurize them in preparation for use elsewhere.

These are not strictly necessary for functionality but may be included to improve the basic design.

These store excess energy generated by the reactor, solar paneling, power grid, etc, in order to provide sufficient energy to start the plasma reaction from a cold start when necessary. Excess power is bled off into the power grid or additional capacitance banks.

This stores heat energy for long periods when necessary to make restarting the reactor easier - and to make delivering hot water easier as well.

In a stationary environment, solar panels generate additional power.