To provide a method for recycling a complex waste as a resource by separating iron or iron and aluminum as major structural materials, and further separating non-ferrous metal except aluminum and plastics in a method for treating a iron-copper type complex waste such as spent domestic appliances except the body of spent automobiles or a television set.

In the method for recycling a complex waste containing 40% or more by weight ratio of iron and copper, aluminum, plastics and the like as a resource, all the structural materials of resources are recycled by crushing the complex waste to remove iron or iron and aluminum, further screening iron, aluminum, copper, plastics by the grind-screening, after removing the said gas or liquid in advance, when said waste includes environmental disruption substance, gas or liquid from combustible materials, or as it is, when said waste includes no said gas or liquid.