Final Essay

Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada – is the biggest automobile manufacturer in the world (The Telegraph, 2014) with a market share of 14.3% in North America (Wall Street Journal, 2015) and a global market share of 11.8%. This makes Toyota third after GM Corporation and Ford Motor Company. Toyota has developed and launched green chemistry, water recycling and cleaning technology at its plants in Cambridge and Woodstock Ontario. By supporting Toyota’s high corporate standards in maintaining business sustainability and social responsibility efforts, it continues to introduce new technological achievements while decreasing resource and energy consumption, which is highly beneficial for the environment in terms of pollution and to stakeholders in

It is also essential for the reproduction of living organisms because it is part of DNA. (Frit Industries Inc., 2014). However, excessive phosphate entering the waterway causes dramatic increase in the growth of phytoplankton, algae, and duckweed in natural water resources, which increases the level of artificial additives. (Water Research Center, 2014). This biological process is also known as “eutrophication”. Above mentioned organisms use huge amounts of oxygen and nutrients, and prevent sunlight from penetrating deep into water. This makes reservoirs uninhabitable for fish and their breeding, and in turn, causes the death of aquatic life.

During the manufacturing process, Toyota uses roughly 46.5 million litres of fresh water with phosphates per year to wash out oil and dirt from auto bodies before paint is applied (Simone, 2014). Earlier, used water with phosphates was drained and eventually arrived at waterways and natural environments, which caused negative consequences for the environment (The Telegraph,

Correspondingly, the number of vehicles-holding population will increase as well. Consequently, taking into consideration limits to growth concept, without reusing natural resources and developing technologies that will support efficient use of raw materials and increase production efficiency, the production level will reach the limit of the carrying capacity of the Earth. By improving current technologies, establishing innovations in technological processes, as well as reducing business operations impact on the natural environment, Toyota has started moving towards green chemistry initiatives at its production lines. At first, it seemed simple, however, it is not. In order to bring it to perfection, especially for the painting process, many engineering ideas and testing are required. Toyota’s plant ‘became the first in North America to recycle surfactant’ (Simone, 2014) and it is going to be implemented at other Toyota’s plants in the near future. (Toyota Motor Corporation, 2014). With continuous implementation of green technologies at manufacturing facilities, Toyota is also developing a system that will capture waste heat and use it to heat green houses where vegetables and fruit will be grown all year round. At present, this garden heated by waste heat, has grown 350 kg of fruit and