To provide a crushing device which safely and efficiency crushes waste toner containers (cartridges) for copying machines without being accompanied by the toners sticking thereto, chips these containers to sizes meeting remolding and crushes the containers so as to be easily separated to plastic materials and metallic materials.

This crushing device for the used toner containers is provided, in a housing 1, with an insertion port 11 for the used toner containers to be subjected to crushing treatment, a pair of roller-like coarse crushing means 20 which normally rotate in directions opposite to each other in a direction where the toner containers are bitten, a pair of roller-like secondary crushing means 50 which rotate the coarsely crushed pieces of the toner containers from the coarse crushing means in a direction where the toner containers are bitten, a powder removing means 70 (an air shower chamber) for removing the residual toners in the toner containers and/or the dust generated by the crushing from the inside of the housing and a crushed piece discharge port 80 which discharges the secondarily crushed pieces from the housing.