The invention provides a method for recovering a positive
electrode material precursor and
lithium carbonate from a positive
electrode waste material of a
lithium ion battery. The method comprises carrying out
mechanical crushing on the waste produced by battery production or waste or old batteries, carrying out sorting to obtain
impurity-containing positive
electrode powder, carrying out immersion through a
reducing agent-containing volatile leaching agent to obtain extract, carrying out concentration rectification, regenerating the volatile leaching agent, adjusting ingredients of the
raffinate containing Co, Ni, Mn and Li, carrying out
coprecipitation on Co, Ni and Mn, carrying out
solid-liquid separation, further treating the Li-rich solution to obtain high-purity
lithium carbonate, and carrying out a high temperature
solid-
phase reaction process on the
mixed materials of Co, Ni and Mn precursors to obtain a positive electrode active material. The method is simple and is free of a complicated
impurity removal process and an extraction enrichment technology. The extraction agent has a wide source, high extraction selectivity and high extraction efficiency. After the extraction reaction, the extraction agent can be recovered and recycled through concentration rectification. The method reduces a cost, can produce high-quality Co, Ni and Mn precursors and high-quality
lithium carbonate and has a good application prospect.