Partners
TOTO USA
Morrow, GA
As the world’s largest plumbing products manufacturer, TOTO deeply
understands the importance of water conservation and sustainability. TOTO
designs innovative, eco-conscious products and promotes practices that
are good for the planet.
Every TOTO manufacturing facility and office environment is ISO 14001:
2004 certified, and engages in a number of activities designed to reduce
the impact their manufacturing processes have on the environment. TOTO’s
advocacy efforts stand as a testament to their commitment to sustainability,
and makes TOTO a natural SmartWay partner. TOTO’s
activities include, but are not limited to:
Reduce
- Fuel usage / harmful emissions by using SmartWay carriers
- Fuel usage / harmful emissions by enforcing no-idle policies at
distribution centers
- Fuel usage / harmful emissions by using and increasing usage of
rail providers
- Transportation miles by promoting local sourcing
- Fuel usage by promoting company carpooling by associates
- Overall transportation use / shipments by continuous improvement
methods to ship more efficiently
- Conventional oil usage by using soy hydraulic
oil in forklifts
Educate/Promote
- Educate associates of the importance of SmartWay
- Promote SmartWay with business partners
- Collaborating with carriers to become SmartWay Transport partners
- Within one month of TOTO joining SmartWay, they converted one
of their most used carriers to a SmartWay Transport partner
Recycle
- fired porcelain
- paper and cardboard
- aluminum cans
- water
- plastic
- wooden skids
- batteries
“The US EPA’s SmartWay Transport Partnership
is an invaluable part of our ongoing effort to reduce our environmental
impact. Each of TOTO’s sustainable initiatives— from
reducing consumptive use of fuel to reducing emissions from vehicles
to reducing waste and recycling—are all designed to help
improve the environment in which we live.”
— Bill Strang, Vice President of Operations,
TOTO USA
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