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Toyota

Toyota Environment

Community & Stakeholders

Toyota Community Spirit

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Toyota Community Spirit is Toyota's corporate citizenship program. It provides financial and in-kind support for national and state partnerships and local community programs. Employee and dealer participation is a key element of Toyota Community Spirit.

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Community Liaison Committee

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The Altona Community Liaison Committee (CLC) provides a forum for community feedback on the environmental performance of Toyota's manufacturing operations in Altona. During 2003, the CLC met monthly and included representatives from the Environment Protection Authority (Vic), City West Water, Hobsons Bay City Council, local residents, industry neighbours and Toyota. A range of Toyota representatives were invited to attend meetings and share information with the CLC.

Environment Improvement Plan
A key activity of the CLC in 2006 was the development and launch of Toyota's second community-based Environment Improvement Plan. For more information, refer to the Manufacturing pages.

National Tree Day

National Tree Day is an Australian environmental initiative aimed at promoting community planting of native trees and shrubs. It is organised by Planet Ark in association with Toyota.

National Tree Day is an inspirational event that has been a major annual project for Toyota since 1999 and it's just one of the many environmental initiatives Toyota has undertaken to preserve and improve the environment.

Toyota's involvement in National Tree Day reflects its efforts to support the environment through community involvement, as well as ongoing innovations in technology such as the hybrid Camry. This will be the first commercially-available hybrid vehicle that is manufactured in Australia.

Planting native trees contributes to re-establishing habitats for native flora and fauna, reversing the effects of salination and sequestering CO2. National Tree Day sites and the trees and shrubs planted were selected by local environmental groups to help restore local habitats.'Your Town Tree Day' allowed communities to select a day for planting that is favourable in local environmental conditions.

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EPA Victoria

Toyota's engagement with EPA Victoria includes:

  • Development of a an Environment Improvement Plan. Download Environment Improvement Plan
  • Preparation of an application for an accredited licence.
  • Secondment of an EPA Victoria employee for six months during 2003. The secondee's experience and expertise was utilised in the verification of the 2003 Environmental Report, scoping and implementation of the manufacturing site waste audit and the development of the Waste Tender.

Accredited Licence

In 2003 TMCA was granted accredited licensee status by the EPA - Victoria for the Altona manufacturing plant.

To be an accredited licensee, the overriding requirement is to demonstrate a high level of environmental performance and an ongoing capacity to maintain and improve this performance. This is demonstrated through the following cornerstones:

  • Envronmental Management System
  • Environmental Audit Program
  • Environment Improvement Plan

Further information on accredited licences is available in EPA publication 424a: Accredited Licensee Guidelines for Applicants. This can be downloaded from the EPA website.

EEO

The Energy Efficiency Opportunities program is a federal government initiative to promote energy efficiency measures in large business. The program commenced in 2007 and requires TMCA to undertake detailed assessments of its manufacturing operations with a view to identifying and evaluating improvement opportunities.