Environmental

  • Donating Your Company’s Old Equipment: Read This First!

    The average North Dakota and South Dakota business refresh cycles are on a 3-5-year plan for IT equipment turnover to help to balance budgeting against technological needs.  If you want to remain efficient and competitive, there’s no getting around equipment these upgrades. While upgrading to the latest devices is fun, you’re left to deal with […]

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  • Happy Earth Day from SEAM!

    This Earth Today, SEAM proudly celebrates the environmental savings we have helped our clients achive by choosing to recycle their electronics with an the only e-Stewards and R2 certified company in the Dakotas. Check out our savings calculator to see how much you could be saving!  

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  • How to Audit Your ITAD Vendor

    Does your South Dakota or North Dakota business understand the importance of proper reuse and recycling of computer equipment, not only for environmental responsibility, but also for data security and value recovery? When looking for an electronics recycling partner, make sure they hold these same values true. There are many disposal shortcuts to make a […]

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  • 5 Reasons Why the Dumpster is a Security Hazard for Small Businesses

    Whether you are fully aware of the ins and outs of consumer privacy laws or not, as a North Dakota small business owner, you certainly know they exist and that they’re intended to protect sensitive consumer data that could lead to identity theft if it falls into the wrong hands.  When your customers provide you […]

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  • e-Stewards 2019 Impact!

    In the last year alone, e-Stewards recyclers and refurbishers across the globe have had a considerable and positive impact on client data security, greenhouse gas reduction, export prevention, and diversion of waste from landfills. Check out their infographic stats!

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  • Calculate Your Annual Environmental Savings!

    By recycling or reusing your electronics, precious metals can be recovered and resources like water and power that would have gone into the manufacturing of new equipment can be saved! The materials that can be recovered from recycled e-waste require much less energy, water, and processing for reuse in new equipment than if mined, produced […]

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  • How Effective is Shredding Drives Internally?

    People used to destroy their hard drives by pounding nails through the disc or dipping them into acid baths.  Unfortunately, these tactics were neither safe nor particularly effective.  Thankfully, most businesses have realized there are more efficient ways to destroy data, and they don’t involve nails or acid baths. Today, you can either wipe data […]

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  • Why Environmentally-Friendly ITAD is So Important

    In this day and age, there’s no shortage of environmental concerns, from carbon emissions to plastics conglomerating in the ocean and killing marine life, among other things.  While some companies can take steps to reduce contributions to these problems, there is one environmental issue that every modern company must address: e-waste. The turnover in electronics […]

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  • The Risks of Electronics Recycling on America Recycles Day

    As we celebrate America Recycles Day, organizations across the country are pledging and showing their support for recycling. At SEAM, we want to remind Sioux Falls and surrounding area businesses of the risks they face when recycling electronics and IT equipment. Properly managing the disposal of end-of-life IT assets is a great way to promote […]

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