Recycling-oriented production and assessment of Fuji Film one time use camera "Quick Snap"

The Fuji Film's one time use camera "Utsu-run-desu" or "Quick Snap" in English product name, launched in 1986 as the first in world, is now a quite popular product, after 15 years later because of its easiness which enables everybody to take photos everywhere and at anytime. The market grows as annual sales amount 340 million pieces, produced totally in the world. Now "Quick Snap" is being produced ca. 100 million pieces in 2000, by all factories in Japan, USA and German. Since the later of 1980s, for environmental and resource recovery reasons, "Quick Snap" have been designed and developed its recycling system. Here, some significant effects of recycling technology will be introduced verifying by means of environmental assessment, with some LCA data.