Abstract: Apparatus for the concentration and sorting of solid waste materials according to their shapes, dimensions, and flexibility without breaking recyclable items. For this purpose, the collar 10 of the apparatus which also comprises a means for extracting flexible products, incorporates lifting devices 11 of bevelled shape and provided with the lining 12 absorbing shocks on the items to be sorted. A portion of these are eliminated at C through large perforations 15, the large flat items being collected at B1, the items having three large dimensions being evacuated at B2.

Abstract: A method for separating fractions of incinerated refuse with a high recuperation yield without requiring special equipment. A first portion of the separation process may be applied to either an initially dry or an initially wet refuse. The refuse is at first screened to a median size. The oversized fraction is crushed and shredded and the non-magnetic fraction separated therefrom is sent commonly to a grinding-rolling mill which also receives the undersize fraction. The undersize fraction downstream of the grinding mill is further treated by a wet separating process, the method achieving separation of ferrous and nonferrous metals, of glasses and silicates, and of magnetic slags.