System and method for providing environmental impact information, recording medium recording the information, and computer data signal
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsMasamitsu Sakurai, Tatsuo Tani, Hiroshi Uramoto, Hiromitsu Hatano
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Abstract
An environmental impact information collection system modifies and analyzes environmental impact information, which is collected and stored in advance, and obtains the environmental impact at each process done in an organization, according to each product. The environmental impact information collection system then obtains a set of environmental impacts in a product's life cycle.
Claims8
1-38. (canceled)
An environmental impact information system comprising:
- a registration unit which receives at least an investment amount and an environmental impact reduction amount for each of a plurality of investment plans, and registers them in a predetermined storage unit;
- a sorting unit which obtains cost-effectiveness of each investment plan registered by the registration unit and sorts the investment plans in an order of ascending level of the obtained cost-effectiveness in the storage unit;
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- a determination unit which adds up the environmental impact reduction amount and the investment amount in the order of the investment plans sorted by the sorting unit, and determines the added-up investment amount as an appropriate investment amount when the added-up environmental impact reduction amount reaches a predetermined target reduction amount.
An environmental impact information providing method comprising:
- a registering step of receiving at least an investment amount and an environmental impact reduction amount for each of a plurality of investment plans, and registering them in a predetermined storage unit;
- a sorting step of obtaining cost-effectiveness of each investment plan registered in the registering step and sorting the investment plans in an order of ascending level of the obtained cost-effectiveness;
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- a determining step of adding up the environmental impact reduction amount and the investment amount in an order of the investment plans sorted in the sorting step, and determining the added-up investment amount as an appropriate investment amount when the added-up environmental impact reduction amount reaches a predetermined target reduction amount.
A computer-readable recording medium storing a program for controlling a computer to execute an environmental impact information providing method comprising:
- a registering step of receiving at least an investment amount and an environmental impact reduction amount for each of a plurality of investment plans, and registering them in a predetermined storage unit;
- a sorting step of obtaining cost-effectiveness of each investment plan registered in the registering step and sorting the investment plans in an order of ascending level of the obtained cost-effectiveness;
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- a determining step of adding up the environmental impact reduction amount and the investment amount in an order of the investment plans sorted in the sorting step, and determining the added-up investment amount as an appropriate investment amount when the added-up environmental impact reduction amount reaches a predetermined target reduction amount.
A carrier wave having an embedded signal representing an instruction sequence for controlling a computer to execute an environmental impact information providing method comprising:
- a registering step of receiving at least an investment amount and an environmental impact reduction amount for each of a plurality of investment plans, and registering them in a predetermined storage unit;
- a sorting step of obtaining cost-effectiveness of each investment plan registered in the registering step and sorting the investment plans in an order of ascending level of the obtained cost-effectiveness;
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- a determining step of adding up the environmental impact reduction amount and the investment amount in an order of the investment plans sorted in the sorting step, and determining the added-up investment amount as an appropriate investment amount when the added-up environmental impact reduction amount reaches a predetermined target reduction amount.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.