Apparatus for assessing a load that industrial products apply to the environment

A computer program product that causes a computer system to assess a load that an industrial product applies to the environment throughout its life cycle, comprising:

• a storage medium;
• environmental load equations that are stored in said storage medium and that are modeled on a stage at which a product is produced and used and a stage of waste treatment and recycling, with the life cycle of the product being divided-into at least the two stages;
• conversion coefficients that are stored in said storage medium and that are used to convert the amounts of materials and energy consumed in producing, using, waste-treating, and recycling the product into the amount of environmental load factors emitted as a result of those operations;
• a storage section that is provided in said storage medium and that stores the amount of materials and energy consumed in producing, using, waste-treating, and recycling the product, for each of the modeled stages;
• calculation specifying means that is stored in said storage medium and that gives to said computer system an instruction to calculate the amount of environmental load factors by applying the amounts of materials and energy fed and the conversion coefficients corresponding to the amounts to said environmental load equations;
• assessment specifying means that is stored in said storage medium and that causes said computer system to assess a load that the product applies to the environment on the basis of the calculation result, and
• output specifying means that is stored in said storage medium and that gives to said computer system an instruction to output the assessment result.