Approximately 40,000 km of railway track in Germany produce a considerable amount of prestressed concrete sleepers, which provide material for both concrete recycling and steel recycling. Current processes have decisive disadvantages that make the separation of the material inefficient or uneconomical. For example, they require increased personnel costs as well as several large machines that require a corresponding amount of space and are in some cases completely stationary. The work can therefore only be carried out on deposits of prestressed concrete sleepers, also because of their high dead weight of over 100 tons in some cases.  Overall, these points cause a significant deterioration in the CO2 balance that the recycling of prestressed concrete sleepers could produce by reintroducing steel and concrete into the material cycle. In order to exploit the recycling potential of railway sleepers, a new process is to be developed that can be used flexibly for all types of concrete railway sleepers, enables a high throughput, works without high personnel and machine effort and is not stationary.