To provide an effective device for automatically sorting and removing covered electric wires from crushed matter (plastics or the like) in a recycling process of waste electric appliances.

The crushed matter falls onto the belt conveyer with brush of a sorting and removing device 2 of electric wires via a quantitative supplier 1. Washed covered wires, cover, bare copper wires are caught by the brush and carried to the upper part in the carrying direction without dropping downward, drop from the reversing part of the belt and stored in a storage tank 3 from a chute. Crushed matter of plastics having flat, spherical or rectangular particles drops downward in the reverse direction of the carrying direction by gravity and accumulates in a storage tank 4.