The invention relates to an environment-friendly production process of 2-naphthol. The environment-friendly production process of the 2-naphthol comprises the following steps: adding refined naphthalene into a sulfonation kettle, adding concentrated sulfuric acid, heating and performing sulfonation reaction, neutralizing a mixture by using alkali after the reaction is finished, crystallizing, filtering, drying, performing alkali fusion and diluting; neutralizing the diluted alkali fused sulfonation liquid by using sulfuric acid at 70 to 80 DEG C, controlling the pH to be 4 to 7, standing and layering, and separating out crude 2-naphthol; washing, dehydrating and rectifying the separated crude 2-naphthol to obtain refined 2-naphthol; and removing alkali from the separated waste liquid, neutralizing to serve as alkaline liquid, absorbing sulfur dioxide generated by neutralization by using a sodium carbonate aqueous solution to produce sodium sulfite, adjusting the pH value of the waste liquid after 2-sodium naphthalene sulfonate is separated to be 2+/-1, performing three-stage extraction by using an extracting agent, performing reverse extraction on the extracting liquid by using dilute alkali, diluting sulfonated liquid by using the reverse extraction liquid, oxidizing the water phase by using a Fenton reagent or KMnO4, decoloring by using active carbon, and recovering sodium sulfate by a mechanical vapor recompression (MVR) concentration technology. By the process provided by the invention, no waste water is discharged basically and the production cost is reduced.