Abstract: A process and its relating plant for recycling zinc oxide residues. Thereby, zinc oxide residues are granulated to particles with a size of d80 between 0.3 and 5 mm, preferably between 0.5 and 2 mm. These particles are fed into a roaster where they are thermally treated at a temperature in the range of 500 and 1.200° C., preferably 800 to 1.100° C. in a fluidized bed to form a calcine. The zinc oxide residues are zinc oxide dusts with a particle size below d80 100 ?m, preferably below d80 75 ?m coming from kiln, submerges lances furnaces, ferric reduction furnaces, galvanizing and/or recycling processes, particularly recycling of steel, copper, lead, nickel and/or electronic scrap, and/or that the zinc oxide residues comes from foundry for lead and zinc, ashes and/or dross from a Zamac process, oxide zinc ash, catalysts, melting and casting of Zn and/or zinc slag.