Collecting/recycling system of organic EL lighting device

A collecting/recycling system of an organic EL lighting device using an organic EL panel, the system comprising:

• information collecting means that obtains a status of the organic EL panel used in a market;
• information processing means that processes and stores, as collection/recycling information, information about a reutilizable member, part, and material of the organic EL panel;
• collection/recycling predicting means that predicts a timing and a quantity of the reutilizable member, part, and material of the organic EL panel, whose status has been obtained by said information collecting means, to be distributed to a recycling based on the collection/recycling information stored in said information processing means;
• and
• production plan setting means that sets a production plan of a recycled organic EL panel for recycling the organic EL panel using a part or all of the reutilizable member, part, and material based on the timing and the quantity predicted by said collection/recycling predicting means,
• wherein said information collection means acquires status data indicating whether a product life cycle of the organic EL panel has expired, as one use state of the organic EL panel, by using means that recognizes a product life cycle expiry state of the organic EL panel.