Sustainability Strategies

3M's strategies for sustainability encompass the pursuit of customer satisfaction and commercial success within a framework of environmental, social and economic values. 3M's capabilities and values promote society's continued move to sustainable development on a global scale.

3M's Strategies

Meeting society's and 3M's expectations for environmental improvement:

• Utilizing 3M's Environmental, Health and Safety Management System to help 3M and our business units identify key issues and long-term solutions.
• Utilizing Life Cycle Management to continuously improve the environmental, health and safety impact of our products and processes.
• Making pollution prevention pay through development of new technologies and products.
• Setting aggressive environmental goals and meeting them.

Meeting employee and community needs as a socially responsible company:

• Attracting and retaining a diverse and talented work force and sustaining a workplace where individual initiative is rewarded, employee health and safety is safeguarded, and innovation is a way of life.
• Supporting continuous learning and knowledge-sharing to increase personal satisfaction, organizational effectiveness and business results.
• where we operate; providing jobs for local residents; and supporting education, the environment, social and economic development.