Providing innovative technology in more than 60 countries, 3M has been bringing to Filipino homes efficient products in home improvement. One of these is Filtrete, the product that seeks to answer the country’s need to improve air quality in the homes through a pioneering air filtering technology.
Around 18 million Filipinos live in cities with unhealthy levels of airborne particulate matter, especially in the most populous metropolitan area in the country, Metro Manila. This finding of the Philippine Environment Monitor, in a joint report of the World Bank and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), sheds light on the staggering number of premature deaths of nearly 5,000 each year in Manila due to respiratory and cardiovascular diseases caused by exposure to poor air quality, especially families who live in these areas.
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