An environmental impact estimation method comprising storing information
related to reuse and recycle objects in a memory unit, performing life
cycle modeling to make a life cycle model, the life cycle modeling
including reading information related to the reuse and recycle objects,
selecting some of the reuse and recycle objects which can be diverted to
a new product, and combining the reuse and recycle objects selected
together to assemble new product, predicting, as a superposition of two
or more arbitrary shapes, recovery distribution of products by the life
cycle modeling to predict a recovery quantity of the reuse and recycle
objected, using the life cycle model, determining the arbitrary shapes as
a peak of the product worth life or product useful life, and evaluating
an environmental impact and a cost to bear in reuse or recycle based on
prediction result.