A method for conveying paste-like material, e.g. sludge or comminuted food wastes using a plant which has a progressive cavity pump, which has a stator, a rotor rotating in the stator, a suction housing, which is connected to the stator, having a filling opening and an outlet opening, and has a pneumatic conveying pipe which is connected in such a manner to the outlet opening of the progressive cavity pump that the material to be conveyed using the progressive cavity pump is pressed as a compressed material strand into the conveying pipe, and also has a control device, wherein a pressure medium supply is connected to the conveying pipe by means of at least one valve, wherein the control device is connected to the valve of the pressure medium supply and the valve is controlled in such a manner using the control device that pressure pulses are injected into the conveying pipe at time intervals, wherein material plugs of limited length are separated from the compressed material strand using the pressure pulses and transported through the conveying pipe, wherein the plant is controlled in such a manner that the pressure in the conveying pipe does not exceed an upper pressure limit value of 5 bars, wherein - a pressure measuring device is connected to the conveying pipe, which pressure measuring device is connected to the control device so that the valve is controlled depending on the pressure in the conveying pipe that is measured using the pressure measuring device, wherein the pressure pulses are generated depending on the pressure in the conveying pipe, specifically when a specified pressure threshold value is reached or exceeded in each case, or - wherein the pressure pulses have a specified duration in each case. wherein a pressure medium supply is connected to the conveying pipe by means of at least one valve, wherein the control device is connected to the valve of the pressure medium supply and the valve is controlled in such a manner using the control device that pressure pulses are injected into the conveying pipe at time intervals, wherein material plugs of limited length are separated from the compressed material strand using the pressure pulses and transported through the conveying pipe, wherein the plant is controlled in such a manner that the pressure in the conveying pipe does not exceed an upper pressure limit value of 5 bars, wherein - a pressure measuring device is connected to the conveying pipe, which pressure measuring device is connected to the control device so that the valve is controlled depending on the pressure in the conveying pipe that is measured using the pressure measuring device, wherein the pressure pulses are generated depending on the pressure in the conveying pipe, specifically when a specified pressure threshold value is reached or exceeded in each case, - a pressure measuring device is connected to the conveying pipe, which pressure measuring device is connected to the control device so that the valve is controlled depending on the pressure in the conveying pipe that is measured using the pressure measuring device, wherein the pressure pulses are generated depending on the pressure in the conveying pipe, specifically when a specified pressure threshold value is reached or exceeded in each case, or - wherein the pressure pulses have a specified duration in each case. - wherein the pressure pulses have a specified duration in each case.