Sustainability at Seagate

Seagate Circularity Program

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Sustainability Driven

Learn about Seagate’s programs addressing energy, emissions, water, waste, and circularity.

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Circularity Driven

Supporting drive reuse, refurbishment, and recovery through circularity programs.

Mindset-Driven

Promoting the secure reuse of storage hardware.

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Technology Driven

Investing in research and development to advance data storage technologies.

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Sustainability Awards

2023 Flash Memory Summit Best of Show

Seagate received the Most Innovative Sustainability Technology Award in the Data Center Storage Category at the 2023 Flash Memory Summit.

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Sustainability Awards

IBC Social Impact Award Finalist

That's why it's important for industry participants to evaluate how data is managed, stored, reused, and retired throughout its lifecycle.

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Addressing rising data storage costs through data management and storage strategies.

Join us for valuable insights into elevating data management and learn how Seagate's refurbishment and reuse programs for storage devices support product circularity.

Sustainability Driven

Today’s linear ‘take-make-waste’ consumption model is unsustainable. In FY2025, we returned over 1.8 million hard drives and solid-state drives (SSD) back to service through repair, refurbishment, component extraction, and material recovery, helping to:

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Reduce over 700 metric tons of e-waste

Transitioning to a circular approach for storage devices can extend product life, support reuse and refurbishment activities, and reduce demand for newly manufactured replacement products.

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Save 275 times more CO₂ emissions

Refurbishing and reusing hard drives cuts 275 times more CO₂ emissions than recycling their components alone. (Source: Science Direct)

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Generate up to $1.8 trillion in economic benefits by 2030

Reducing drive production means less energy consumption, resource extraction, and greenhouse emissions. (Source: Ellen MacArthur Foundation)

By 2028, 394ZB of data will be generated—all of which needs to be stored and archived.

To meet growing demand, industry players are rethinking data management infrastructure and exploring ways to improve storage efficiency, product reuse, and circularity.

That’s why we’re scaling the Seagate Circularity Program to be global. By engaging our entire ecosystem of technology stakeholders, we can elevate the industry’s overall sustainability commitment.

(Source: IDC Worldwide Global DataSphere Forecast 2024-2028; May 2024, IDC #US52076424.)

Product Sustainability and Life Cycle Assessments

Find out how Seagate supports a more sustainable future through product circularity and beyond.

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Our value of integrity guides our approach to climate-related governance, target setting, performance monitoring, and disclosure.

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Circularity Driven

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Recover

Enabling the secure reuse of storage hardware with self-encrypting drives and instant secure erase (ISE).

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Recertify

Extending product life through repair, refurbishment, parts extraction, and materials recovery.

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Redeploy

Placing refurbished drives back into the market and reusing materials cuts e-waste and helps conserve finite resources.

Treasure, Not Trash

Extending the life of your hard drive can help conserve resources and reduce electronic waste by keeping products in use longer.

In 2022, Seagate helped found the Circular Drive Initiative (CDI)—a collaboration with global leaders in digital storage, sustainability, and blockchain—which focuses on reducing e-waste by promoting and enabling the secure reuse of storage hardware.

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Seagate ReStore Program

Choosing to recycle your old drive keeps valuable materials in circulation and reduces the environmental impact of e-waste. Our ReStore Program makes it easier to return your device responsibly — and rewards you with savings on your next Seagate upgrade.

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Responsible device return

Send your old drive through our simple, trackable process.

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Earn savings for recycling

Receive a discount code as a thank you for choosing to recycle your old drive.

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Support circular materials

Returned drives help reduce raw material demand and keep components in the circular economy.

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Explore the value of circularity.

Discover the economic benefits of the Seagate Circularity Program.

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Mindset Driven

Stop hard drive shredding. Shift to a mindset of sustainability. Reduce unnecessary hard drive shredding through secure data erasure. Despite modern state-of-the-art sanitization techniques, data security remains the biggest concern in adopting drive circularity. This leads to widespread hard drive shredding, with over 200 million devices disposed yearly. Seagate provides certified data erasure solutions designed to help organizations securely sanitize drives before disposition or reuse.

Industry Gold Standard

Seagate uses industry gold standard secure erase (IEEE 2883), bringing a trusted, certified level of data sanitization.

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Cryptographic Erase

Certified sanitization of encryption keys ensures all drive data is completely removed—safely and efficiently.

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Purge Data Sanitization

Purge uses logical or physical techniques to wipe all data on addressable and non-addressable storage.

It Requires a Change in Mindset for Us All

Learn more about how we make the secure reuse of drives possible.

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Technology Driven

Seagate makes significant investments in the R&D of breakthrough technologies that extend our product’s life cycles, provide better data durability and security, and help customers get the most value from their data.

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Data Security and Sanitization

Seagate Secure with SED technology and instant secure erase (ISE) ensures the secure redeployment of drives through self-encryption and cryptological erase.

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Mozaic 3+

Mozaic 3+™ is a hard drive platform that incorporates Seagate’s unique implementation of HAMR to deliver mass-capacity storage at unprecedented areal densities of 3TB/disk and beyond.

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ADR and ADAPT

Autonomous Drive Regeneration (ADR) and Autonomic Distributed Allocation Protection Technology (ADAPT) self-heal internal systems -- reducing e-waste, downtime, maintenance, and human intervention by renewing errant drives in situ.

Making hard drive innovation a reality. Hard Drive Innovation

Our nanoscale technology harnesses heat, light, and bits to record more data than ever before.

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Seagate Factory Certification Process

We take the following steps to make sure our factory recertified products live up to the Seagate quality standards:

Sanitize: Overwrite data when applicable, following the Data Overwriting Process for Returned Products.
Test: Confirm the product meets Seagate factory performance standards.
Certify: Apply factory certification (or recertification, as applicable) labeling.*

* Product documentation—including specifications and warranties for Seagate products that include prime drives—do not apply to recertified products.

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Seagate Circularity Program

2023 Flash Memory Summit Best of Show

IBC Social Impact Award Finalist

Addressing rising data storage costs through data management and storage strategies.

Sustainability Driven

By 2028, 394ZB of data will be generated—all of which needs to be stored and archived.

Product Sustainability and Life Cycle Assessments

Sustainability at Seagate

Circularity Driven

Treasure, Not Trash

Extending the life of your hard drive can help conserve resources and reduce electronic waste by keeping products in use longer.

Seagate ReStore Program

Explore the value of circularity.

Mindset Driven

It Requires a Change in Mindset for Us All

Technology Driven

Making hard drive innovation a reality. Hard Drive Innovation

Seagate Factory Certification Process

We take the following steps to make sure our factory recertified products live up to the Seagate quality standards:

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