Patent ID: 7780760

Claim:
A method for sorting shredder residues of metal-containing waste, comprising: separating the shredder residues into a shredder light fraction and a non-ferromagnetic fraction; producing a raw-granulate fraction in respective preliminary processes of the shredder light fraction and the non-ferromagnetic fraction and a subsequent common main process of the shredder light fraction and the non-ferromagnetic fraction by separating out at least one of an iron-containing and ferromagnetic fraction, a fraction containing nonferrous metals, a fiber fraction and a sand fraction; separating out the raw-granulate fraction in a refining process; and separating out, from the raw-granulate fraction, a granulate fraction depleted in chlorine configured to be used as a raw material; wherein after at least one of the iron-containing and ferromagnetic fraction, the fraction containing nonferrous metals, the fiber fraction and the sand fraction is separated out, the material remaining in the shredder light fraction and the non-ferromagnetic fraction is combined and jointly treated in the common main process.