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

Author

Ichino, Shuichi

Author_Institution

Ashigara Factory, Fuji Photo Film Co. Ltd., Kanagawa, Japan

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

507

Lastpage

510

Abstract

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

Keywords

cameras; recycling; Fuji Film; Quick Snap; Utsu-run-desu; environmental factors; one-time-use camera; recycling-oriented assessment; recycling-oriented production; resource recovery; Assembly; Cameras; Environmental economics; Manufacturing automation; Manufacturing processes; Marketing and sales; Plastics; Production facilities; Recycling; USA Councils;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing, 2001. Proceedings EcoDesign 2001: Second International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1266-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/.2001.992410

Filename

992410