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Summary

This Report, produced annually, provides an in-depth overview of the progress it has made toward applying science to improve lives.

Report Highlights

3M recognizes that sustaining the planet, and its business, means protecting natural resources and empowering individuals and communities throughout the world to encourage progress. It means balancing economic, environmental and social factors while addressing global challenges. 3M commits to using its global reach and diversity of markets and products to unite under a common goal to improve every life. Further, 3M commits to improving its business, the planet, and every life.. Improving every life is an exciting endeavor and an ambitious one. It’s the right thing to do and core to who they are.

3M recently published its 2015 Sustainability Report. This Report, produced annually, provides an in-depth overview of the progress it has made toward applying 3M science to improve lives. This year, 3M has increased its transparency of the information it has learned is most important to its stakeholders, and has made the Report easier to navigate on multiple web platforms. Key recent achievements featured in the Report include:

- Between 2002 and 2014, 3M voluntarily achieved a 64% absolute reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.

- From 2010-2015, 3M increased on-site reuse and recycling by nearly 40%.

- In 2014, 3M recycled 25% of our total water used.

- Continuing since 1975, 3M has prevented more than 2 million tons of air, water and waste pollution through our visionary Pollution Prevention Pays (3P) program.

- In 2014 alone, through use of 3M product platforms, 3M customers avoided 15 million metric tons of CO₂.

- 3M invested more than $80 million of cash and in-kind product donations in 2014.

For more information and to join 3M on this journey toward improving every life, please learn more here.

For further questions, please contact sustainability@mmm.com

3M is a $32 billion diversified science-based technology company with a global presence in the following business groups: Consumer, Electronics and Energy, Health Care, Industrial, and Safety and Graphics. These five business segments bring together combinations of 3M’s 46 unique technology platforms to produce over 55,000 products, driving innovation and providing for efficient sharing of business resources.

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