Challenge, Commitment, Progress
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2010 North America Environmental Report Challenge, Commitment, Progress table of contents DEAR READER ................................................................................................................................................. 4 ENVIRONMENTAL VISION & ACTION ........................................................................................... 6 Toyota’s Guiding Principles and Earth Charter .................................................................................... 8 Environmental Action Plan ...................................................................................................................... 8 Environmental Impacts at All Points of the Vehicle Life Cycle ....................................................... 11 Environmental Coordination ................................................................................................................. 12 ENERGY & CLIMATE CHANGE ........................................................................................................... 14 New Fuel Economy and GHG Emissions Standards ......................................................................... 15 Vehicle Efficiency ....................................................................................................................................... 17 Vehicle Fuels Diversity ............................................................................................................................. 18 Advanced Vehicle Technologies ............................................................................................................. 19 Advanced Transportation Solutions ..................................................................................................... 22 Energy and Greenhouse Gases in Our Operations ............................................................................ 22 RECYCLING & RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ............................................................................... 28 Designing Vehicles With the Environment in Mind ......................................................................... 29 Substances of Concern ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 29 Waste Reduction and Recycling in Our Operations .......................................................................... 30 Water Consumption in Our Operations .............................................................................................. 34 AIR QUALITY ................................................................................................................................................. 36 Tailpipe Emissions .................................................................................................................................... 37 VOC Emissions in Manufacturing ........................................................................................................ 38 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ................................................................................................. 40 Environmental Management Systems .................................................................................................. 41 Environmental Management With Our Business Partners ............................................................. 43 COOPERATION WITH SOCIETY ........................................................................................................ 46 Contributions to Sustainable Development Efforts ........................................................................... 47 Communication With Stakeholders ..................................................................................................... 51 NORTH AMERICAN PRESENCE ......................................................................................................... 52 Toyota’s North American Affiliates ....................................................................................................... 53 SCOPE OF THIS REPORT: The period covered in this North America Environmental Report is fiscal year 2010 (April 1, 2009 through March 31, 2010) and product model year 2010. This report covers the Toyota, Lexus and Scion brands in North America. If data are presented with different dates, this is clearly indicated. This report was published in November 2010. We report on our progress against our FY2007-2011 Environmental Action Plan. We also provide information on our company’s overall economic investment in North America. This report covers activities across the North American region — the United States, Canada and Mexico. This report is available on the Web. A French version is provided on the Web only. We listened to your comments and suggestions about last year’s report, and used them to improve this report. We would appreciate hearing from you again. You may participate in a survey on the Web. CONTACT TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. Environmental Report Manager | 601 Lexington Ave, 49th Floor, New York, NY 10022 | © 2010 www.toyota.com (USA) | www.toyota.ca (Canada) | www.toyota.com.mx (Mexico) 3 2010 TOYOTA NAER dear reader WE ARE PLEASED TO PRESENT the tenth annual Toyota Our pursuit of these advanced vehicle technologies has helped North America Environmental Report. Each year we provide us recognize the importance of the wider mobility system. a retrospective look at our performance on key environmental As such, our strategy for sustainable mobility encompasses issues. This report describes the progress we made in fiscal year not only new technologies and products, but also the new 2010 (FY2010) against goals and targets in our North American energy sources that will power them, the design of the urban Environmental Action Plan (EAP). The EAP helps us focus environment in which they will operate, and the many and prioritize the actions we take to reduce the environmental partnerships that are necessary to bring them to market. impact of our products, as well as the operations we employ to However, this strategy will not be successful if consumers build, distribute and sell them. are not ready to buy advanced vehicle technologies, and the infrastructure is not in place to support their use. This One of our top priorities this past year was to continue is why Toyota is working to align technology with the improving and demonstrating advanced vehicle technologies, market to ensure successful introduction and adoption of which are essential to the evolution of the automobile. these new vehicles. Automakers have been successfully using the same basic technology — the gasoline combustion engine — for over To achieve the aims of our sustainable mobility strategy and a century, allowing for unprecedented levels of mobility for make progress toward sustainability in our operations, we society. This has not come without a price though, in terms measure our performance against specific goals and targets of environmental impacts and increasing demand for limited in our EAP. While our environmental performance this past resources. Toyota recognizes that society’s mobility needs must year was on track in many areas, we missed some targets due be met without sacrificing environmental quality, and believes to factors such as the ongoing economic downturn. Economic that technological innovation is the key to meeting this goal. conditions resulted in lower production volumes which made Thirteen years ago we introduced the Prius, with our Hybrid it more difficult to meet out vehicle-based targets. Despite this, Synergy Drive® system, to the global marketplace. We are we maintained our vision and continued to work with our now using this hybrid system as the foundation for the other customers, employees, shareholders, dealers, partners and local advanced powertrain technologies we are developing: plug-in communities to accomplish our long-term goals. hybrids, fuel cell hybrids, and battery electric vehicles. Yoshimi Inaba Jim Lentz Dian Ogilvie Tetsuo Agata Director Managing Officer Senior Vice President & Secretary Senior Managing Director Toyota Motor Corporation Toyota Motor Corporation Toyota Motor North America, Inc. Toyota Motor Corporation President & Chief Operating Officer President & Chief Operating Officer President & Chief Operating Officer Toyota Motor North America, Inc. Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. Toyota Motor Engineering & Chairman & Chief Executive Officer Manufacturing North America, Inc. Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. 4 DEAR READER Highlights of our FY2010 performance include the following: • Further engagement with communities through Toyota’s signature environmental philanthropic program, • Roll-out of our 2010 Prius Plug-in Hybrid Vehicle (PHV) TogetherGreen™, in partnership with the National Audubon demonstration program, with more than 150 vehicles Society. To date, 72,400 participants have put in over being placed with program partners in the U.S. and 275,000 hours of habitat, water, and energy conservation Canada. Our aim is to educate and inform the public, efforts across the U.S. and assess the technology’s performance under a wide variety of conditions. Details for each of these examples and many more are included • Improvement of fuel cell hybrid vehicle (FCHV) throughout this report as we describe our progress against technology while achieving significant cost reductions. targets and goals across five key areas: Recent modifications have resulted in an estimated range • Energy and Climate Change; of 431 miles on a single