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In partnership with our customers, 3M uses science every day to improve lives and help solve society’s toughest challenges – from clean air and clean water, to advanced health care and food safety. We recognize the unique and inspiring opportunity we have: to grow our enterprise while making the world stronger, safer and healthier.
To that end, we remain committed to making significant investments in Sustainability-inspired innovation. In 2017 3M invested $1.9 billion in research and development, as we continue inventing and manufacturing cutting-edge Sustainability solutions. Last year, in fact, 3M products helped our customers reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 13 million tons.
Our commitment to Sustainability extends to our own operations, and has for decades. In 1975 we launched a pioneering program called Pollution Prevention Pays, which empowers 3Mers to find creative ways to make our company more efficient. This initiative continues today, and has led to 15,000 projects that have prevented two million tons of air, water and waste pollution.
Last year we also continued to make progress on our 2025 Sustainability Goals, which we laid out three years...