With your ability, you get to use it anywhere, without being in an EGS Recycle zone. It does however, not give you EGS Recycle level 5, which is required to get devices.
Assuming you didn’t upgrade EGS Recycle, this is what applies to you:
So what is then the issue?
What exactly do you think you should have gotten and did not get?
Can you paste here please the player logs from HWS Connect which tell you everything you got?