Toyota Motor Manufacturing France (TMMF), home of the new generation Yaris and Yaris Hybrid, is one of five Toyota global Sustainable Plants, who has continuously made efforts in reducing the amount of water used to produce each vehicle.
But in the spirit of continuous improvement, TMMF looked now into using rainwater instead of industrial water for production. Averaging 172 days of rain, they thought it would make sense to capture some of this rain. By investing in a rainwater collector, purchased industrial water has fallen to 789 l/vehicle.
With this, TMMF had already positioned itself as a benchmark for Toyota Manufacturing worldwide with regards to water use. However, TMMF still wanted to pursue their ultimate goal: “Zero Purchased Industrial Water” for vehicle production. Having had excellent experience with the first rainwater collector, TMMF invested in a second water collector, but this was still not enough!
The only way to challenge Zero Purchased Industrial water, however, was to further increase wastewater recycling. However, in 2014, recycling levels went down, due to one of the wastewater quality parameters being constantly above normal.
