The invention provides a method for extracting and recovering silver from a waste solar cell, and relates to a technology of solar material washing. The method comprises the following steps: a, washing the surface of a waste solar cell; b, soaking in hydrochloric acid to remove an aluminum back surface field; c, rinsing a silicon wafer subjected to aluminum back surface field removal with pure water, and then soaking in nitrohydrochloric acid to remove a silver electrode on the silicon wafer; d, adding HF into the nitrohydrochloric acid to remove a silicon nitride blue membrane on the surface, thus obtaining a clean silver extraction wafer; e, rinsing the silver extraction wafer with pure water, soaking in mixed acid, and cleaning to obtain clean fragments; and f, adding high-purity iron powder into the nitrohydrochloric acid solution, stirring, filtering silver powder after the reaction is finished, drying, proportioning, and smelting to obtain a high-quality silver ingot. The invention has the following beneficial effects: through the properties of different kinds of acid, the aluminum, silver and silicon nitride on the cell can be subjected to independent treatment, so that the cell can be fully utilized; meanwhile, the silver can be recovered, and about 0.6kg of silver can be recovered from 50kg of cell; and the silicon ingot production cost can be effectively reduced, thereby achieving the synergy purpose.