North American provider of hazardous waste management, industrial cleaning, spill response and used oil re-refining, with 400+ service locations across the US, Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico.
Clean Harbors, Inc. is North America's leading provider of environmental and industrial services, and the continent's largest hazardous waste disposal company and largest re-refiner of used oil. The company manages hazardous and non-hazardous waste, performs industrial cleaning and maintenance, provides emergency spill response, and delivers closed-loop recycling and reclamation of used oil and cleaning solvents through its Safety-Kleen subsidiary. Work spans technical domains including hazardous waste management and disposal, used oil re-refining, industrial cleaning, and environmental services.
The company was founded in 1980 by Alan S. McKim, who started the business at age 24 as a tank cleaning operation with a single Mack truck and four employees. It is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange as CLH and is headquartered in the suburban Boston area. Operations cover the United States, Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico, with more than 400 service locations and over 100 disposal facilities in North America.
Clean Harbors serves customers across the chemical, manufacturing, energy, government, healthcare, refinery, transportation, utilities and pharmaceuticals sectors, including a majority of Fortune 500 companies. The work is carried out through company-owned disposal facilities and service locations, with an emphasis on responsible closed-loop recycling, reclaiming and reusing materials.
