The invention relates to the field of energy regeneration of lithium batteries, and provides a method for preparing a nickel cobalt lithium manganate lithium-ion battery positive material from waste lithium batteries. The method comprises the following steps: recycling the waste lithium ion batteries, dissolving into acid liquor to obtain a mixed metal solution, enabling calcium, magnesium, copper, zinc, lead, aluminum and other impurities in the mixed solution to enter an acid extractant organic phase, performing multistage refluxing on the organic phase loaded with the impurities, performing reverse extraction on the organic phase by using acid so as to regenerate the organic phase for reuse, and removing calcium, magnesium, copper, zinc, lead, aluminum and other impurities to obtain an impurity-free mixed solution; and conveying the prepared mixed metal solution and an additive solution into a freezing crystallization kettle to obtain nickel cobalt manganese lithium salt powder. By the method, nickel, cobalt, manganese and lithium elements are recycled from the waste batteries and waste positive materials, and after impurity removal, the nickel cobalt lithium manganate positive material is produced in a recycling manner so as to synthesize a regenerated product with the same performance as an original product in a directional recycling manner, so that resource reutilization of main metals in all the lithium-ion batteries is achieved.