Seagate Transitions More Operations to Renewable Energy and Ramps Circularity Program Returning Nearly One Million Drives to Service
April 24 2023 - 10:03AM
Business Wire
Company details progress towards driving a
sustainable, inclusive, and ethical datasphere in its Sustainable
Datasphere FY2022 ESG Performance Report
Seagate® Technology Holdings plc (NASDAQ: STX), a world leader
in mass-data storage infrastructure solutions, today announced that
it is over 50 percent towards its 2030 moonshot goal of powering
100% of its global footprint with renewable energy and that it has
extended the life of over one million hard disk drives (HDD) and
solid-state drives (SSD) through its refurbishment program in
fiscal year 2022 (July 2021 – June 2022).
The achievements were announced in conjunction with the
publication of Seagate’s Sustainable Datasphere: FY2022 ESG
Performance Report (formerly entitled “Global Citizenship Annual
Report”). The 17th annual report is a comprehensive look at
Seagate's environmental, social, and governance (ESG) progress. The
report describes Seagate’s yearly progress towards meeting the
company’s goals to power its global footprint with 100% renewable
energy by 2030 and to achieve carbon neutrality by 2040. These
goals were pledged last year in support of its commitment to a
sustainable, inclusive, and ethical datasphere.
“At Seagate, we have always believed in data’s potential, which
is why we are driven to help the world store and protect it,” said
Dave Mosley, Seagate’s chief executive officer. “To be successful,
however, we must lead the way in addressing the numerous
environmental, social, and governance impacts and challenges our
industry presents.”
Well on track towards achieving its pledge of powering its
global footprint with 100% renewable energy by 2030, Seagate
announced that four of its seven global manufacturing sites are now
fully transitioned to using renewable energy through renewable
energy purchasing contracts and solar system installations,
accounting for more than half of the company’s total energy
consumption.
Additionally, Seagate extended the life of 1.16 million HDDs and
SSDs in FY2022. These drives were recovered through refurbishment
and redeployment, preventing over 540 metric tons of e-waste1 from
going to the landfill.
Driving its impact on circularity, Seagate staked its
environmental leadership in FY2022 by becoming a founding member of
the Circular Drive Initiative (CDI), collaborating with global
leaders in digital storage, sustainability, and blockchain focusing
on reducing e-waste by enabling the secure reuse of storage
hardware.
“Seagate leads with transparency and accountability, both by
setting strong circularity goals across our global enterprise, and
by working in coalition with our customers, industry peers and
associations, supply chain partners, and governments to achieve
these goals to reuse, refurbish, recover and recycle,” said KF
Chong, senior vice president, operations and strategic planning at
Seagate. “Given our scale, Seagate is a strong example of achieving
our commitments to enable a more circular economy, reduce GHG
emissions, preserve rare-earth minerals, reduce water and energy
usage, and achieve financial savings."
Additionally underpinning the company’s sustainability
ambitions, Seagate launched a new consumer external HDD that is
manufactured from 30% post-consumer recycled materials by weight
and features 100% recyclable packaging. The new Ultra Touch HDD
adds to the company’s line of external backup storage drives as
well as its previously released premium brand LaCie Mobile Drive,
which is also manufactured with post-consumer recycled
materials.
Other highlights of the Report include:
Planet
- ~21,000 MWh of electricity saved through energy conservation
and efficiency initiatives in FY2022, exceeding our initial
conservation goal of 10,000 MWh
- 87% (~27,000 metric tons) of non-hazardous waste diverted from
landfills in FY2022
- 5.8% reduction of absolute market-based scope 2 operational
emissions in CY2021 vs. CY2020
- 82% of hazardous waste generated in FY2022 was recycled
- ~1,000,000 drives returned to service through refurbishment and
redeployment in CY2021
- 1,352 MWh of on-site solar energy generated in FY2022
- 17.5% increase in water recycling in CY2021 from CY2020
- 17.1% decrease in water intensity (megaliter per EB) in CY2021
from CY2020
People, Prosperity, Governance
- 9.1% increase in inventions with 1+ female inventors
- 281,051 hours of learning and development completed in FY2022
by our employees
- 3,600 global members representing nine employee resource groups
(ERGs) and over 27 local chapters across all ERGs in FY2022
- 131 different engagements and partnerships conducted in local
communities
- 20% increase in (U.S.) supplier diversity spend from FY2021 to
FY2022
- Strengthened Data Governance by implementing encryption-based
data protection tools and automating key compliance processes
To learn more about Seagate’s ESG efforts, visit our ESG
page.
About Seagate
Seagate Technology crafts the sustainable datasphere, helping to
maximize humanity’s potential by innovating world-class,
precision-engineered mass-data storage and management solutions
with a focus on deep-rooted partnerships. A global technology
leader for nearly 45 years, the company has shipped over four
billion terabytes of data capacity. Learn more about Seagate by
visiting www.seagate.com or following us on Twitter, Facebook,
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1. Assuming each drive is an average weight of 465g
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