Patent ID: 7748096

Claim:
A recycling facilitating system which facilitates disassembly of an item to be recycled, comprising: an item identification data input unit, through which item identification data for identifying the item to be recycled is input; an item disassembly data memory, which stores item disassembly data for constructing a plurality of different disassembly diagrams showing steps of disassembling the item to be recycled in correspondence with the item identification data; an item disassembly data retrieval unit, which retrieves the item disassembly data from the item disassembly data memory based on the item identification data that was input by the item identification data input unit; a disassembly diagram constructing unit, which constructs the disassembly diagram based on the item disassembly data that was retrieved by the item disassembly data retrieval unit; and a disassembly diagram output unit, which outputs the disassembly diagram that was constructed by the disassembly diagram constructing unit, wherein the disassembly diagram constructing unit determines progress status of an operation step of disassembling the item to be recycled by identifying a tool that was used during the operation step, and, in accordance with the progress status which was identified, constructs one of a plurality of disassembly diagrams, which can be constructed from the item disassembly data that was retrieved by the item disassembly data retrieval unit.