I also had the problem of large quantities & varieties of stuff that doesn’t seem to be useful. In the end for everything that I thought not worth the effort storing them I just threw them into cacti. 
Turns out to be much less time consuming than constantly making new chests. Anyway, I don’t think “lack of use” should be too big a problem.
Also talking about realism, zeolite is used as catalyst in catalytic cracking IRL isn’t it? I think having it as an ingredient in the catalytic cracker recipe is nice.
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