WASTE PAPER PROCESSING APPARATUS AND WASTE PAPER PROCESSING METHOD

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a waste paper processing apparatus capable of processing written information hard to be figured out while maintaining the state of the processed paper suitably applicable to a raw material for obtaining a recycle pulp raw material.SOLUTION: The waste paper processing apparatus comprises: a processing member 10 in which a processing path R with an inlet 11 and an outlet 12 is formed; a first pushing body 23 moving reciprocally between the outside of the inlet 11 and the inside of the processing path R; and a second pushing body 26 moving reciprocally between the outside of the outlet 12 and the inside of the processing path R. A waste paper X, which is disposed at the inlet 11, is pushed into the processing path R by the action of the first pushing body 23 and crushed into a round shape by the action of the first pushing body 23 and the second pushing body 26 in an axial direction.