The invention discloses a scrap wire and cable separating and recycling process, relating to a separating and recycling process for scrap wires and cables, and comprising the following procedures in sequence of: breaking, pellet decomposition, whirl screening, air separation, electric separation and decopperization, wherein pellet decomposition is performed by putting materials in a machine for high-speed operation to decompose the combined materials; whirl screening is performed by bonding all kinds of fibrous materials in the material to form conglomerated fibrous balls; air separation is performed by separating larger copper granules from plastics in the fiber removed materials by a specific gravity winnowing machine; electric separation is performed by separating copper from plastics by electric separation according to the electrical difference between the two materials on electric conductivity; decopperization is performed by separating fine copper powder contained in the plastics by the machine after electric separation; and further electric separation is performed secondarily on the plastics and trace metal. The scrap wire and cable separating and recycling process has the beneficial effects of good separation effect and high separation efficiency, and is suitable for separating and recycling all kinds of scrap wires, cables, communication cables and other combined materials of metal and plastics.