The invention belongs to the technical fields of wet metallurgy and chemical industry production and discloses a method for treating a waste secondary battery. The method comprises the following steps: performing two-stage combustion in a rotary kiln, maintaining the furnace temperature to be at 100-150 DEG C, roasting the waste secondary battery on the furnace front, and remaining for 30-60 minutes to ensure that a sealing ring in the waste secondary battery is fully pyrolyzed and damaged, so that hydrogen and an organic solvent in the battery are released; and burning the materials in a hearth on the rear of a combustion chamber of the furnace body, maintaining the temperature to be at 300-500 DEG C, fully oxidizing, pyrolyzing and burning organic matters in the wastes, and effectively controlling generation of ozone and nitrogen oxides, so that the produced gas achieves the odor-free, stink-free and completely-combusted effects. The treatment method provided according to the invention is reasonable in design, the operations of burning and breaking are sequentially performed, the breakage rate is high, the recycling rate of valuable elements is high, a high-temperature burning explosion accident can be avoided, and the method is safe, pollution-free and suitable for popularization.