Hm, I haven't seen any bug reports for the latest version, which has been out for nearly a month, so it might be a specific mod incompatibility, or like you said, a broken installation.
Since it seems you can load into the main menu, try disabling the automatic ingredient push (under mod settings, in the map specific category) then try to start a new game and see if the same thing happens.
Though there shouldn't be anything running as you start a new game, disabling the setting will guarantee that none of my code runs during map generation. (it won't affect the functionality of the recycling machine, that all happens before loading into the main menu)