PURPOSE: To provide a device and method for safely disposing a container in which the radioactive liquid is put to carry out the sampling test at a low cost by cleaning and crushing the container alter its used.

CONSTITUTION: A container 4 carried in from a chute 15 is received by a turn table 16, and delivered one by one, sorted into a jug 6 and a plug 5, the plug 5, the inside of the jug 6, and the outside are cleaned and dried by a device 19, a device 20, and a device 21 respectively, and are crushed through discharge systems 22, 23 directly, or by crush rollers 158, 159, and sent to a disposable can 7. The container may be made brittle at extremely low temperature to facilitate the crush. The polluted liquid is received by collectors 26, 27.