The peeling apparatus comprising a holding table adapted to carry an optical disc composed of upper and lower disc-shaped substrates laminated to each other, a boss disposed centrally of the holding table allowed gas to blow between the disc-shaped substrates, and a suction means peripherally of the holding table to suck pulverized adhesive dust exhausted from said disc-shaped substrates when the two disc-shaped substrates are peeled off from each other, said suction means being provided a suction groove so formed to correspond to the periphery end of the two disc-shaped substrates, said holding table being provided with sucking and holding means for sucking and holding the two disc-shaped substrates.