The Comminution of Solid Waste

The demand for secondary materials, primarly steel, glass and plastics, has led to the significant development and application of new techniques, equipments and plants used in recycling. The paper describes the basic techniques for solid waste comminution and presents the typical machines and equipment used for this purpose. The aim of the paper is to draw domestic industry's and contractor's attention to the production area which in spite of certain production potentials still doesn't exist in Croatia.