IHI Employee Volunteers Clean Up Headquarters Neighborhood
Every month sees IHI Group employees volunteer to clean up the neighborhood around the Toyosu IHI Building during lunch breaks. This corporate citizenship initiative around headquarters started in 2000. From around 2007, IHI stepped up cleanups by collaborating with local businesses and the Toyosu 2/3 Chome Area Town Building Conference. It halted these initiatives during the pandemic, resuming them in May 2023.
Around 100 employees took advantage of fine weather in participating in a litter cleanup in the streets around headquarters on October 27. The four bags of trash they collected comprises mostly empty glass and plastic bottles, cans, and cigarette butts.
Augmenting that regular activity, employees from the Urban Development Business Unit, which redevelops Toyosu, clean up three local city blocks during the morning of the first business day of every month. The goal here is to go beyond its redevelopment remit to keep contributing to a better neighborhood. Both cleanup initiatives have proven so popular among employees that IHI often runs out of cleaning supplies.
The IHI Group will keep fulfilling its responsibilities as a corporate citizen through volunteer cleanups and other efforts that make Toyosu a better place to live and work.
