Social & Environmental Reports
The reports from each year can be viewed as PDF files.
Toyota Industries provides support for a wide range of environmental activities, such as local community clean-ups and environmental preservation activities, which are carried out by our employee volunteers.
* The activities (examples) presented on this page are carried out by Toyota Industries Corporation in Japan, but do not represent those organized by our subsidiaries or affiliates.
Every
year in September Toyota Industries conducts a "company-wide environment beautification
campaign" to clean-up the areas surrounding each of its domestic plants. We also
call on our other group companies to participate, and in FY 2007, some 4,100
employees from 19 affiliated companies volunteered to participate. In addition,
our Manager's Councils, groups of employees organized by supervisory level, and
the "Toyota Industries Council of Retired Employees", an organization comprised
of retired Toyota Industries' employees, take part in clean-up events in the
areas around public facilities, such as parks and train stations. Furthermore,
the "Adopt-an-Area Program" is being promoted by citizens and business groups
in cooperation with local governments. Under this program, citizens and business
make an application to the local government to "adopt" a certain public area,
and then carry out regular cleaning and beautification activities in that area.
Our Manager's Councils and employee volunteers are continuing to register to
participate in this program and are carrying out clean-up activities.
In recent years comparatively cheap imported lumber is being used more and
more, while the health of Japanese forests continues to deteriorate. In order
to rejuvenate the Japanese lumber industry and promote the growth of healthy
forests it is vital to draw up plans to increase the usage of domestic lumber
and reduce the amount of imported foreign lumber (which will also reduce illegal
logging). These sorts of initiatives will also make a large contribution to conservation
of the global environment. In order to promote healthy forests it is important
to carry out forest thinning and cut lumber from planted forests in line with
the growth of the trees. In order to make effective use of the lumber cut through
forest thinning, Toyota Industries is cooperating with an international environmental
NGO, "FoE JAPAN", to support the expanded use of wooden pallets made from this
lumber and is also donating wooden benches that were constructed using lumber
from domestic forest thinning.
In response to the requests of local governments, every year in May Toyota
Industries carries out fund raising activities for the Green Fund. We request
donations from employees at the company gates as they come to and leave work.
The donations we collect are then used by the local governments to promote city
greening activities.