Patent ID: 7346459

Claim:
An environmental impact information system, comprising: an environmental impact information obtaining unit which obtains environmental impact information regarding an environmental impact at a plurality of processes included in activities of an organization; an environmental impact information collector which collects the environmental impact information obtained by the environmental impact information obtaining unit; an environmental impact information analyzer which analyzes the environmental impact information collected by said environmental impact information collector, and obtains a set of environmental impacts in a product's life cycle; a procurement information manager which manages information regarding a chemical composition and an environmental impact of a material procurable from a supplier; an examination processing unit which examines the information managed by said procurement information manager based on a predetermined condition; a procurement information memory unit which stores procurement information regarding a material which has passed examination by said examination processing unit; a design unit which designs a product for which an arbitrary material is used with reference to the information stored in said procurement information memory unit; and a report information output unit which produces an output of report information having a predetermined format, on the basis of the environmental impact information collected by said environmental impact information collector and the environmental impacts in a product's life cycle obtained by said environmental impact information analyzer; wherein said environmental impact information obtaining unit obtains environmental impact information for the product designed by said design unit, by reading out the information regarding the chemical composition and the environmental impact of the material used for the product from said procurement information memory unit.