As a critical component in obsolete ammunition, energetic materials have the characteristics of multiple types and complex components, and their safe and efficient disposal has always been a focus of research both domestically and internationally. Traditional incineration disposal technology has the characteristics of wide application range and strong batch disposal capacity, but it has disadvantages such as low energy utilization rate and difficulty in treating the three wastes. With the continuous deepening of environmental protection concepts, countries are researching resource utilization and disposal technologies for scrapped energetic materials, in order to achieve the goals of waste utilization and low-carbon environmental protection. Based on the reviewing the overall development of resource utilization and disposal of obsolete ammunition abroad, the focus was on tracking the resource utilization technology of scrapped energetic materials, which was summarized into two categories: separation-recycling and conversion-reuse technology, Finally, the application scope and characteristics of several typical disposal technologies were discussed to provide guidance for the development and capacity building of resource utilization disposal technologies for energetic materials in China.