To recover much more used lens-fitted photographic film units.

A positioning hole 13 is formed on the front cover 14 of the film unit 2. The device for recovering the film unit 41 is equipped with a machine kind discriminating mechanism 57 for detecting the hole 13 of the film unit 2 by throwing the film unit 2 in a throw-in hole 42, a film winding unit 83 for winding photographic film 22 to a film cartridge 18 by turning a winding knob 12, a cartridge take-out unit 84 for opening a bottom cover 19a and taking out the cartridge 18 loaded in the film unit 2, a cartridge housing box 59 in which the cartridge 18 taken out is housed, and a body housing box 60 in which the film unit 2 except the cartridge 18 is housed.