The invention discloses a waste electric cable winding recovery device and relates to a cable compression recovery device. Two hydraulic cylinders (10) are arranged on the upper portion of a support plate (11) at an interval, pistons (9) of the two hydraulic cylinders (10) are connected with the lower portion of an ejection plate (8), two insertion cylinders (2) penetrate lower through holes formed at an interval in the front and rear cylinder walls of the lower portion of a compression cylinder (5), the supporting plate is disposed on the two insertion cylinders, upper through holes (4) are formed in the front and rear cylinder walls of the upper portion of the compression cylinder, the other two insertion cylinders penetrate the upper through holes, an upper plate (3) is arranged on the lower portion of the other two insertion cylinders, and a waste electric cable winding compression cavity is formed in the compression cylinder between the upper plate and the ejection plate. By means of the device, co-acting of the compression cylinder, the upper plate, the ejection plate and the hydraulic cylinders is used, so that shaggy waste electric cables can be compressed into blocks, and the recovery number each time is increased greatly.