The invention belongs to the field of recovery and utilization of waste printed circuit boards, and specially, relates to a method for separation and recovery of metal copper and a glass fiber cloth in a waste printed circuit board. The method comprises the following steps that putting an electric element-free waste circuit board into a pyrolysis furnace to carry out pyrolysis treatment, wherein a resin for bonding a glass fiber cloth and a metal layer is pyrolyzed into carbon, carrying out treatment on the residues obtained by the previous step by a two-stage smooth roll rolling technology, and carrying out screening to obtain a carbon powder, metal and glass fiber concentrate. In the invention, a first-stage rolling process aims at shedding pyrolytic carbon between a glass fiber cloth and a metal layer, wherein each layer of the electric element-free waste circuit board is completely separated from other layers of the electric element-free waste circuit board and carbon powder is separated out after screening; and a second-stage rolling process aims at crushing devastatingly the glass fiber cloth and rolling up the metal layer which is flexible into a roll, so that through screening, metal-nonmetal separation is realized. In addition, metal and nonmetal in a mixture obtained by the first-stage rolling process and screening can be separated out directly by an electric separation method or a pneumatic preparation method. Through the combination of pyrolysis and physical processes, the method provided by the invention realizes high-efficiency separation of metal and nonmetal from a waste circuit board, and finally, realizes the purpose of eco-friendly resource recovery of waste circuit boards.