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Comment by DoreenMichele

3M has been facing a raft of litigation that has prompted the move

Generally speaking, toxic substances are only "cheap" due to externalizing many of the costs involved, like increased healthcare costs and lost productivity. If you do a thorough analysis of the costs of using such chemicals, they aren't cheap at all.

Maybe someday humans will get that.

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