The invention provides a method for recovering lithium from a lithium-containing electrode waste material. The method comprises the following steps of (1) roasting the lithium-containing electrode waste material under a reducing atmosphere, after roasting, cooling under a protective atmosphere to obtain a reduced material, leaching the reduced material through a leaching agent, and carrying out solid-liquid separation to obtain a lithium-containing solution and solid slags; (2) preparing the lithium-containing solution in the step (1) into a lithium-containing product. According to the methodprovided by the invention, a reducing gas is adopted for reducing roasting, so that the roasting temperature is low, and the energy consumption is less; and one-step leaching is carried out after reducing, so that high-efficient separation of lithium and other metal elements can be realized, the concentration of the lithium in the leaching agent is high, the recovery rate of the lithium is greatlyimproved, the recovered lithium-containing product has high purity, and in addition, other transition metal elements in the waste electrodes can be further recovered. The method provided by the invention is short in flow, low in cost, and easy to realize industrial application.