Bottle Cap Vaccination Drive

The Yokogawa head office and factories undertook an “ecocap” drive beginning in 2008 to recover the caps for plastic bottles and sell them as recyclable materials; the resulting funds were donated to childhood vaccination programs. This was organized by the Ecocap Movement.

Yokogawa placed bottle cap recovery bins at its head office and factories and encouraged employee participation through posters and company newsletters. This resulted in some 905,000 bottle caps recovered during FY 2009, which were sent to the Ecocap Movement. This was enough to purchase roughly 1,500 polio vaccinations.

Recycling these bottle caps also limited CO2 emissions by 7,128 kg.

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