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Toshiba Group is engaged in various environmental communication activities worldwide. We are working to make our environmental initiatives known to a wide range of stakeholders, including communities and schools near Toshiba factories and offices, as well as to customers, students and employees in order for everyone think about environmental problems together.
We held the Toshiba Youth Conference for a Sustainable Future 2008 in July 2008. It is a camp program held in Japan under the auspices of the Toshiba International Foundation. High school students from Thailand, the United States, and Japan gathered together to discuss environmental issues. Along with teachers and volunteers chosen from among Toshiba Group employees, nineteen students from the three countries who have keen interest in environmental problems, lived together for a week to participate in a wide variety of activities, including tours of Toshiba’s facilities, lectures by experts, and workshops.
The conference was held again in 2009, with high school students from the above three countries plus Poland, to provide opportunities for young people from different countries to discuss environmental issues shared by people around the world.
The group photo in front of Toshiba Kagakukan
A tour of the Toshiba Science Museum
Students from different countries in a discussion
Presentation on the closing day
We exhibited our home appliance products at the 2009 International CES, a consumer electronics show held in January 2009 in Las Vegas, the US. In the environmental exhibition corner, we displayed Toshiba Group’s Environmental Vision 2050 along with environmentally conscious products, including TVs, PCs, LED lights and SCiB™ cells, and presented our ongoing efforts for recycling and tree planting.
Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc. and Toshiba America, Inc. sponsor the Toshiba Green Innovation Award Program in Orange Country, the US. This is a program aimed at awarding local companies, institutions, and organizations for their outstanding environmental activities, such as the development of environmentally conscious products, services, and technologies. In 2008, the award was given to a water treatment facility in Orange County.
Toshiba Medical Systems Europe B.V., which sells medical systems, held a “Green Day” event in April 2009 in order to raise awareness on environmental issues among its employees. Employees from various European countries participated in the event to share information and to have discussions on the environmental management of Toshiba Group.
At the IFA Berlin Show (Germany) held in August and September 2008, we displayed the most advanced digital products and set up an environmental corner to present Toshiba Group’s environmental activities.
Hangzhi Machinery & Electronics Co., Ltd. carries out a program for cleaning up Xihu Lake located near its office every year with the participation of volunteers from among its employees. In 2008, a total of 322 employee volunteers and their family members participated in the program held in November with company waste collection bags in hand in order to protect the beautiful landscape and water environment of the lake.
We set up a display corner, the Shanghai Eco Showcase, in a large-scale shopping center in Shanghai for a month from December 2008 to enable visitors to experience Toshiba’s environmentally aware and energysaving products first-hand. We presented an environmental message by Toshiba’s TV commercial characters, Li Bingbing and Huang Xiaoming, attracting many visitors.
Toshiba Information Equipment (Philippines), Inc. is actively engaged in various environmental communication activities conducted with the participation of employees, such as joint clean up programs with local community residents, environmental classes in elementary, and junior high school in the neighborhood and poster contests.
In October 2008, the company received the E3 Award for its environmental activities and management. The E3 Award is given by the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry to companies that are engaged in innovative environmental management.
We exhibited our products at the Eco-Products International Fair 2009 held in Manila, Philippines in March 2009, presenting Toshiba’s environmental activities in a wide range of areas, from energy and social infrastructure to home appliance products. We invited 500 students from local schools and had many visitors.
During the Environment Month, each site engages in many activities, such as lecture meetings on environment-related issues by famous people, communication about the environment with the local community and tours of environmentally conscious facilities. The Fuchu complex, Toshiba Corp., participates in the Fuchu Environmental Festa every year to show its efforts in terms of environmental conservation by displaying panels and distributing brochures. During the event, the Fuchu complex also distributes leaf molds made from leaves having fallen within the site.
During the 3R Promotion Month, each site engages in various activities, including volunteer activities for waste cleanup, wasterelated facility tours and communication activities with the local community to promote measures and policies for the effective utilization of resources. Though waste cleanup activity is performed regularly at each site, the scope of the activity was expanded to areas around the site in October. We keep our surrounding areas clean out of consideration for visitors.
In the Energy-Saving Month, each site engages in activities to promote energy saving, such as energy-saving patrols and energy consuming facility tours. Yokkaichi Operations, Toshiba Corp. holds a tour of the Kawagoe heat power plant of Chubu Electric Power Co. Inc. Through a lecture on energy saving measures from the energy supplier, the confidential relationship between supplier and consumer can be improved.
Toshiba Semiconductor (Wuxi) Co., Ltd. regularly engages in information exchanges with the environmental agency of the government. It receives explanations concerning the current environmental administration in China and introduces its own environmental activities in order to establish a confidential relationship with the government.
Philippine Operations, Toshiba Information Equipment Co., Ltd. annually assembled an organization to perform the “Cleanup Operation (cleanup activity)” in order to contribute and help resolve the waste problem that is intensifying with economic and population growth. This improves the environmental awareness of employees and promotes street scape.
Toshiba of Canada Limited engages in various activities on the days labeled “Days for environmental education for employees”. It also strives in other areas such as supporting the launch of Boy and Girl Scout troops and park cleanup activities by employees in order to contribute to the local community.
Plymouth Operations of Toshiba Information Systems (UK) Ltd. annually hold various events on-site on the Environment Day (June 5th). Through the environmental activities held within the site, an introduction to ways to recycle household waste and elaborate events, such as the distribution of energy-saving electric bulbs as gifts and quizzes on environmental issues, communication with local residents can be enhanced.
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