Since Recycling is centered around the Quality mod, not Space Age in particular, you can get the Recycler with the Space Age mod disabled and the Quality mod enabled. I have tried changing the dependency from space-age >= 2.0.2 to quality >=2.0.2 and your mod does load.

I have verified it all works nicely by disabling space-age mod and enabling quality mod and then loading a space age save. You can also start a new game with space age disabled and quality enabled, then search the technology tree for 'recycle' and see both recyclers.

Thanks

Done.