System and method for assessing environmental load

A system for assessing an environmental load includes an image acquisition unit which acquires image data of an image of a component-implemented circuit board subjected to assessment, a component database which includes matching-purpose data and environmental load data with respect to a plurality of components, and a matching unit which matches the image data with the matching-purpose data of the component database to identify individual components on the component-implemented circuit board subjected to assessment, and extracts the environmental load data belonging to the identified individual components from the component database, thereby obtaining the environmental load of the component-implemented circuit board subjected to assessment.