The invention discloses a method for treating waste residue for producing 1-aminoanthraquinone into a raw material for producing 1,5(1, 8)-dinitroanthraquinone. The method treats and removes isomer containing beta-nitroanthraquinone in the waste residue for producing the 1-aminoanthraquinone to obtain mixed nitroanthraquinone (mixed niter for short), and the mixed niter mainly contains the 1,5(1, 8)-dinitroanthraquinone and the 1-aminoanthraquinone and can be used as the raw material for producing the 1,5(1, 8)-dinitroanthraquinone. The method comprises the following steps: crushing 100 portions by mass of dry waste residue for producing the 1-aminoanthraquinone into powder, adding 400 to 500 portions by mass of sulfuric acid or nitric acid into the powder, heating the mixture to between 50 and 65 DEG C, stirring the mixture for 1 to 2 hours, and filtering, washing and drying the mixture to obtain the mixed niter which can be directly used as the raw material for producing the 1,5(1, 8)-dinitroanthraquinone, wherein the 1,5(1, 8)-dinitroanthraquinone can be produced through dinitration reaction of anthraquinone according to the method of CN101423477A, and bulk commodity dye disperse blue 2BLN (C.I. disperse blue 56) is further produced. The method has simple process; and the obtained product has stable quality and obvious economic benefit.