Toyota Reduces Water Consumption by Nearly 55 Million Gallons

Dec 10, 2015

Toyota is an automaker dedicated to protecting the environment and reducing its carbon footprint. Case in point is the current 2015 Toyota Prius, which gets an EPA-estimated 51 mpg city and 48 mpg highway that tops most other cars on the road. Besides building more efficient vehicles, Toyota has worked to incorporate environmental initiatives into their vehicle production and facility use.

Starting in 2010, Toyota made it their goal to reduce water consumption by 6% by 2016. This year, they beat the goal and reached 8%, saving close to 55 million gallons of water in the process. To do this, they installed a sophisticated filtration system in their San Antonio plant that cuts 80 gallons from the production of each vehicle. Here at their nearby Chicago service training center, they switched to drought landscaping and implemented a rainwater collection system.

That’s not all Toyota is doing, though. All of the North American Toyota facilities were able to reuse, compost, recycle, or reduce their non-regulated waste by 96%. To top it off, 28 of their facilities qualify as zero waste businesses.

The end goal for Toyota is eliminate nearly all carbon emissions at their facilities by 2050. They’re already well on their way thanks to initiatives like switching their Alabama plan to partially run on energy stored in old hybrid vehicle batteries that would no longer be useful in cars. For their efforts, the EPA has given Toyota their Energy Star Partner of the Year Sustained Excellence Award 11 years in a row!

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