Abstract: The invention relates to the technology of reprocessing industrial and domestic waste. The problem addressed is reducing energy consumption and the quantity of toxic waste which enters the environment when rubber waste is reprocessed. This problem is solved by the use of superheated steam for the pyrolysis of the waste material. Superheated steam, amounting to between 18 and 110 percent of the mass of the rubber waste, is used as the heat carrier. The gaseous products of pyrolysis are condensed together with the steam, and the condensate thus obtained is mixed with the solid residue which has first undergone preliminary grinding to produce particles of between 0.001 and 0.210 mm in size. The quantity of solid residue in the mixture is set at between 23 and 55.8 percent of the total mass of the mixture. This process results in the production of a liquid fuel with improved environmental characteristics.

Abstract: Technology for treating industrial and domestic waste which can be applied in the chemical industry as well as in the power generation sector as a way of using plastic and polymer waste. The method involves: melting down the plastic waste in an atomsphere of superheated steam and thermal destruction of the waste at a temperature of 400.degree.-500.degree. C. on a multi-layered inert material whose particles diminish in size, layer by layer in the direction of flow of the melt, from 3.83 to 0.12 mm; and the removal and condensation of the gaseous products.