Ten years ago, I would have had a hard time answering that in a positive manner. The reason for that statement is that until then, a roll of film was sent in to a facility with a darkroom and chemicals, where the photo, slides, or movies were taken into that darkroom and rinsed in a chemical developing solution in order to process the film and make the pictures.
However, in this day and age, with the virtual replacement of film photography with digital photos coming off a computer, I believe I can now say that photography can be truly eco-friendly, provided the computer is disposed of in the proper manner when it comes to the end of its life sometime down the road.
Hopefully, at that point, those photos will end up being put into a photo album of some sort. What, I'm sure, comes to most people's minds at this point is either a cardboard or plastic photo album available at your local drug store, camera store, or department store. This would most likely have a metal ring mechanism in it designed to hold the photos. Many, though not all, of these albums have plastic pages, and most, sadly, are the kind which are harmful to the environment, but especially to those, for all intents and purposes, irreplaceable, because they have polyvinyl chlorides, or PVCs, in them. These are the chemicals which, you may have heard, will over a period of years, leach the colors out of your photos, which is a tragic thing to have happen to pictures, the great majority of which will never be able to be re-taken, since the people and places in them were caught in a once-in-a-lifetime group, maybe on a special vacation, and eventually all of those people will be gone, and the scene behind them may even change for the worse--case in point, the pollution of Los Angeles hanging over Grand Canyon.
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