Toyota Plant To Get Green Makeover

July 24, 2007

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Toyota says that it plans to increase the sustainability of its production operations, Huliq.com reports. The initiative will emphasize the role of nature in creating production sites.

These “sustainable plant” activities are to be first carried out at Toyota’s Tsutsumi Plant, which makes the Prius hybrid vehicle and which has been positioned as a “model sustainable plant.” In addition to a cogeneration system already in place, the plant is to use a 2,000kW photovoltaic generation system, one of the biggest in use among the world’s automobile plants, according to Toyota.

TMC intends to paint the plant’s exterior with photo-catalytic paint, which breaks down air-born nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides with the cleansing effect of 2,000 poplar trees.

The company will also plant trees at the Tsutsumi Plant.

By carrying out the above, Toyota aims to reduce Tsutsumi’s CO2 emissions by five percent.

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great to see these processes being addressed. Now if they’d just get some of their guzzlers to be more efficient!

maxmsf | July 24th, 2007

So planting trees is now a major component of corporate sustainability? And the complete strategy will reduce CO2 emissions by a grand total of 5%. And this is something Toyota presents as progress? This only goes to show how far even leading corporations ,such as Toyota, have to go and makes for rather depressing reading within the context of the global Co2 and sustainability challenge.

Brendan Dunphy | January 3rd, 2008