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Toyota Thinking Green
Toyota Motor Sales Headquarters
Announces Zero Waste to Landfill
TORRANCE, Calif. - Toyota Motor
Sales (TMS), U.S.A., Inc. announced today its Think Green!
program, which achieves a high recycling rate and zero waste to
landfill at TMS headquarters. Toyota's comprehensive Think
Green! program sets an environmental benchmark for the
automotive industry.
"Think Green! reduces the impact
TMS headquarters has on our environment by creating resources
from waste," said Bob Pitts, TMS group vice president of
administrative services. "Toyota Motor Sales is committed to its
Global Earth Charter and will continue to expand initiatives to
protect our environment."
With more than 5,000 employees,
business partners and visitors in 15 buildings on the TMS
headquarters campus each day, it has become important to find
new ways to reduce and recycle waste. Think Green! enables TMS
to divert waste from landfills and avoid the emission of
approximately 1,000 tons of green house gases each year.
"This administration is proud of
businesses that demonstrate how the environment and the economy
come together to build a better California," said Linda Adams,
California Secretary for Environmental Protection. "It is truly
inspiring to see the level of commitment displayed by Toyota
Motor Sales and their dedication to be stewards of the
environment."
Through a comprehensive
campus-wide recycling program and further waste sorting at CR&R
Waste and Recycling Services' state-of-the-art material recovery
facility, TMS now achieves a recycling rate of 80 percent.
Remaining material is utilized as fuel to produce electrical
energy.
In the first three quarters of
2006, TMS diverted 615 tons of materials from landfill --
equivalent to the weight of 420 Toyota Prius hybrids. |
