Social & Environmental Reports

The reports from each year can be viewed as PDF files.

Conservation Activities

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.

Local Environmental Beautification Activities

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.

Forest Preservation 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.

The Green Fund

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.

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