27/08/08

Toyota heads a huge initiative by planting new trees in Thailand

Ten thousand people plant a hundred thousand trees

Fotogallery Over 100,000 volunteers among the members of the local community, officials of the Chachoengsao province, suppliers and car dealers as well as their families and relatives, have planted some 100,000 new trees inside and outside the Toyota plant standing at Ban Pho, in the Thai province of Chachoengsao.

This event, which witnesses Toyota’s steady commitment to the environment and to its vision of sustainable production by planting trees inside and outside the areas surrounding its factories, has been designed to create a manifold natural environment where a production site becomes a rich and diversified habitat for the ones living in it.

Based on research on the local flora, 34 types of trees have been sorted out, including the yang-na and takien thong species, and 100,000 stalks have been planted.

The Ban Pho plant, which has been working since 2007, aims at being a very innovative factory in the Asian Pacific area thanks to its production technologies but also for the solutions to the various environmental issues. For instance the waste has been dramatically set to zero from the very beginning of the operations; actually this is Toyota’s first plant overseas which introduced a cogeneration system combined with solar panels, able to cut down CO2 emissions by 9,000 tons every year. Moreover, the sewage is recycled and the paint used is metal-free.
At present a biotype 3 in the plant allows to re-use the materials deriving from production and its processes: for example the wood of the packaging is used to make bridges, the waste plastic to make benches and blocks of solidified waste stuff to surface pavements.

Toyota Motor Corporation has announced all that will also gradually take place in all its plants across the world in order to make sustainable production come true.