Working hard to reduce waste, conserve energy and protect the environment

Our Policy Statement

As a leading Automotive Manufacturing Facility, Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc. (TMMK) is committed to ensuring our operations and business practices contribute to the quality of life at TMMK and the surrounding community.

Team members are responsible for diligently managing their processes as part of the TMMK team. In keeping with this philosophy, TMMK is adopting the EARTH CARE policy.

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Commitment to the Environment

Kentucky Fish & Wildlife Foundation — TMMK donated $300,000 to KFWF to fund the Toyota Living Stream Exhibit. This outdoor exhibit includes a running stream and waterfall, hands-on aquatic-related learning stations, and exploration of life cycles, food chains and roles of mussels, crayfish, aquatic insects and other species in the environment, and a unique underwater viewing area for numerous native fish.

Louisville Zoo — TMMK donated $25,000 to the Louisville Zoo to support the Zoo’s 2004 Backyard Action Hero Program. This program is designed to teach youth (3rd through 5th grades) how they can make a difference in the environment. A guidebook and Website focus on “Five Great Backyard Conservation Projects,” with each project involving home, school and zoo-based activities.

Other — TMMK donated $150,000 to the Louisville Science Center for the World Around Us Exhibit and $10,000 annually to the Kentucky Nature Conservancy for ongoing environmental education and preservation.

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Ongoing Progress

At our plant in Georgetown — and at every other Toyota facility in North America — new ideas and new initiatives are being implemented every day to protect the environment. Here are a few examples:

• Toyota vehicles are now 85 percent recyclable. Huge shredders allow steel and non-ferrous metals to be recycled, and new processes also enable the recycling of car materials like urethane foam, copper, glass and plastic bumpers.
• Virtually 99 percent of all scrap steel generated by Toyota plants is now recycled. In addition, many waste materials, like plastic wrap, paint solvents, used oil, packaging materials and cardboard, are recycled. We even recycle engine block modules, which annually keeps 500,000 pounds of material from ending up in the landfill.
• Total recycling at our plant — Toyota's largest outside Japan — has now exceeded 100,000 tons per year.
• At Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, more than 45,000 light bulbs are recycled each year.
• At all Toyota plants, the use of returnable packaging serves as a major means of conservation, as wood pallets and cardboard boxes are being used less frequently in the shipping process. More than 95 percent of the North American parts at TMMK are currently received in returnable packaging. This direct reuse of containers helps to conserve our natural resources and keeps the waste out of the landfill.
• Our environmental efforts even extend to our construction sites, where thousands of construction workers follow strict guidelines for everything from hazardous waste disposal and storm water control, to recycling of construction materials.

The list goes on and on...

We're proud of our environmental record, and rightly so. From the innovative ways in which we handle paint, to our ultra-efficient methods to use the metals in our cars, we try to make the best cars in the world while keeping the air pure, and the waters crystal clear.

We think we owe that to the planet, to our customers, to our team members and to the communities where Toyota has its facilities.