The invention discloses a method for recycling lithium, nickel, cobalt and manganese from a waste ternary anode material. The method comprises the steps of with the waste ternary anode material as theraw material, adding a carbon reducing agent, carrying out mixing and dosing, carrying out roasting reduction at 500-700 DEG C in a protective atmosphere, adding the roasted product into water, carrying out water-soluble reaction, after the reaction is finished, filtering to obtain lithium carbonate filtrate and a filter residue I, carrying out sulfuric acid leaching on the filter residue I so asto obtain a filtrate containing nickel, cobalt and manganese and a filter residue II, adding sulfate so as to adjust the proportion of nickel, cobalt to manganese in the filtrate containing nickel, cobalt and manganese, carrying out precipitation reaction on the filtrate containing nickel, cobalt and manganese, a sodium hydroxide solution and an ammonia water solution in the protective atmosphere, controlling the reaction temperature at 50-70 DEG C and the pH value at 10-11, obtaining ternary precursor slurry after the precipitation reaction, filtering, washing, and drying, so as to obtain the ternary precursor. The method has the beneficial effects that the separation condition of lithium carbonate is simple, the costs of leaching processes of nickel, cobalt and manganese and the regeneration process of the ternary material precursor are low, and the recycling rate is high.