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Sustainability Report*

Sustainability @ Seagate
Seagate is committed to sustainable storage. Our engineering focus is on increasing storage capacity and utilization, while controlling the quantity and types of materials we use and improving energy efficiency and recyclability.

Sustainable Design Features
  • PowerBalanceTM feature optimizes Watts/TB
  • Maximize total cost of ownership savings through lower power and weight with helium sealed-drive design
  • Base plate manufactured using 90% post-consumer recycled Aluminum

Energy and Greenhouse Gases
Manufacturing and using our products requires energy and produces Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. We assess life cycle energy and GHG impacts and work towards improving energy and GHG efficiency and reducing ownership costs with each new generation of our products. Since 2022, our manufacturing facilities have operated using 100% renewable energy.

 

Power Consumption Per Unit Per TB
Average Idle Power (W) 5.3 0.3
Operating (W) 9.5 0.5
Average Annual (kWh) 49.8 2.8
 

Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Life Stage

Use Phase - Conventional Energy

 
4.4% Bill of Materials
7.2% Manufacturing
0.1% Packaging
1.4% Distribution
86.8% Use Phase
0.1% End of Life

2.28
kg CO2e/TB-yr

 

Use Phase - Renewable Energy

 
26.7% Bill of Materials
43.6% Manufacturing
0.4% Packaging
8.4% Distribution
20.2% Use Phase
0.8% End of Life

0.38
kg CO2e/TB-yr

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Safer Materials

As a leading supplier to major original equipment manufacturers, Seagate helps to establish standards for direct materials – components that make up our products -- to meet customers’ strictest specifications. We are meticulous about cataloging restricted substances; currently we list more than 2,000.

 

Human Toxicity by Life Cycle Stage

Use Phase - Conventional Energy

 
29.1% Bill of Materials
3.6% Manufacturing
0.1% Packaging
0.2% Distribution
66.9% Use Phase
0.2% End of Life

7.84E-7
DALY/TB-yr

 

Use Phase - Renewable Energy

 
87.8% Bill of Materials
10.8% Manufacturing
0.2% Packaging
0.5% Distribution
0.0% Use Phase
0.7% End of Life

2.60E-7
DALY/TB-yr

Scarce Resources

We aim to reduce our use of scarce resources during the life cycle of our products. We assess the water and mineral resource depletion impacts of our products in order to minimize dependence on key natural resources and reduce manufacturing and product ownership costs.

 

Mineral Resource Scarcity by Life Cycle Stage

Use Phase - Conventional Energy

 
95.1% Bill of Materials
0.2% Manufacturing
0.1% Packaging
0.0% Distribution
4.6% Use Phase
0.1% End of Life

0.006
kg Cu eq/TB-yr

 

Use Phase - Renewable Energy

99.7% Bill of Materials
0.2% Manufacturing
0.1% Packaging
0.0% Distribution
0.0% Use Phase
0.0% End of Life

0.006
kg Cu eq/TB-yr

 

Water Consumption by Life Cycle Stage

Use Phase - Conventional Energy

 
23.6% Bill of Materials
18.8% Manufacturing
0.0% Packaging
0.0% Distribution
57.5% Use Phase
0.0% End of Life

0.026
m3/TB-yr

 
 

Use Phase - Renewable Energy

10.3% Bill of Materials
8.2% Manufacturing
0.0% Packaging
0.0% Distribution
81.5% Use Phase
0.00% End of Life

0.059
m3/TB-yr

Materials Efficiency and Circularity

Seagate recognizes the traditional “take, make, dispose” linear approach to business is unsustainable. We measure our progress towards a circular economy with a variety of indicators including material used per TB of storage, use of recycled content, reuse rates, and recycling type and efficiency.

Device Weight - Shipped (g) Per Unit Per TB
Drive Enclosure 519 29
Media 138 8
Electronics 16 1
Packaging Cardboard and paper 55 3
Other materials 19 1
Total 747 41





Key Circularity Parameters Per Unit
Estimated Operating Life 5 years

Recycled aluminum in base plate

90%

Recycled aluminum in other parts

World average

Recycled steel content

World average

Recycled cardboard

100%

Reused content

zero

Recycling rate

25%

Residual disposal

100% landfill

Reuse rate

zero

Recycling efficiency

95%

Recycling collections efficiency

90%

 

Seagate measures and reports its product sustainability performance on a TB-year basis. Seagate's drives come in different storage sizes and have different estimated useful lives. When referring to drive capacity, one terabyte, or TB, equals one trillion bytes. The TB-year measure combines these factors so that sustainability performance data is comparable across products and that annual impacts are directly reported. Seagate uses the Ecoinvent 3.8 Life Cycle Inventory database.

Seagate’s sustainability assessment tools used to generate life cycle assessment results have been verified by UL in accordance with ISO 14040, ISO 14044, and the World Resources Institute and World Business Council for Sustainable Development's GHG Protocol Product Life Cycle Accounting and reporting Standard.

 

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