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3M promised to phase out PFAS by the end of 2025. How has it turned out?

In December 2022, 3M shocked the chemicals world when it announced it would stop PFAS production. The company, which pioneered PFAS in the 1950s and now faces billion-dollar lawsuits over the resulting pollution, said it would stop making PFAS by the end of 2025.

“3M completed its exit of PFAS manufacturing at the end of 2025,” says 3M’s annual report, published earlier this month. It means this huge multinational has taken an important step towards detoxifying its production.

When it announced it would stop making PFAS, the company said it would also “work to discontinue the use of PFAS across its product portfolio by the end of 2025”. Indeed, we can see that 3M has removed PFAS from almost 7,000 products during the past three years – that’s about one-third.

3M promised to phase out PFAS by the end of 2025. How has it turned out?

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