Toyota Motor Sales: A Winner of the 2006 WRAP of the Year (WOTY)

The Waste Reduction Awards Program recognizes Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A, Inc. Headquarters Campus/L.A. Parts Distribution Center as a California business that has made outstanding efforts to reduce nonhazardous waste and send less garbage to our landfills.

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Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A, Inc. Headquarters Campus/L.A. Parts Distribution Center (Torrance, Los Angeles) is the sales, marketing, distribution and customer service arm of Toyota, Lexus and Scion in the United States. Toyota is the second largest global automotive manufacturer and Toyota is the number one selling car brand in the United States. Toyota operates under a Global Earth Charter that promotes environmental responsibility, recognizing the need for comprehensive approaches to the effective use of resources and the suppression of pollution and global warming. Toyota is committed to producing affordable, energy-efficient, and easily recycled vehicles with methods that preserve the environment. In fiscal year 2006, Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. Headquarters Campus and Los Angeles Parts Distribution Center diverted over 2,325 tons of material from going to the landfill, saving more than $180,498 through disposal cost avoidance, and paper and metal recycling revenue. And as part of the larger Toyota North America operations, the Returnable Packaging Program of Toyota Motor Sales saved over 7 million pounds of wood, 2.7 million pounds of corrugate, and $5.7 million last fiscal year alone through waste avoidance. At Toyota, working to reduce environmental impact is part of moving forward.
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Years Awarded: 2005

Press Coverage

How Toyota wrapped up top California recycling award
Torrance Daily Breeze
By Lee Peterson, Staff Writer

The Toyota complex on 190th Street houses about 5,000 employees, and was able in 2006 to divert 2,325 tons from going to the dump through recycling and waste reduction. Millions more pounds were diverted through the company's returnable packaging program throughout North America.

Since applying for the award, it's also worked to become a zero- landfill-waste center by hiring a company to make sure every recyclable is plucked from its waste stream. Any leftover refuse that can not be recycled is shipped to the waste-to-energy trash-burning plant in Long Beach.

Event Photos

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CIWMB Chair Margo Reid Brown holds the WOTY award with Toyota officials after the presentation ceremony.

 

WOTY award winners and event speakers.

 

CIWMB Chair Margo Reid Brown holds the keys to a new Toyota hydrogen fuel vehicle.

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