Patent ID: 6965833

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 chemical material information memory unit which stores in advance chemical-material information regarding chemical materials included in a plurality of to-be-supplied materials to be used for manufacturing products; and a law provision memory unit which stores information regarding laws and/or provisions concerning environmental problems, wherein said environmental impact information obtaining unit obtains the environmental impact information by specifying each of the to-be-supplied materials to be used for a product which is designed at a design process in accordance with the laws and/or provisions stored in said law provision memory unit, and reading out the chemical-material information regarding a chemical material included in each specified to-be-supplied material from said chemical material information memory unit.