Recycling Reuse Services Overview
Overview
Clean Harbors offers numerous alternatives to waste disposal by providing a variety of recycling, reuse and reclamation options for hazardous and non-hazardous materials—including chemicals, solvents and precious metals.
Making a Difference
By committing to waste minimization and waste recycling, companies receive several environmental benefits, including:
- Conserving natural resources
- Reducing dependence on landfills and other disposal facilities
- Providing an economic and regulatory incentive
- Saving energy
- Decreasing your carbon footprint
Clean Harbors Recycle Reuse Advantages
Clean Harbors finds beneficial uses for your manufacturing by-products:
- We blend high BTU liquidsfor use as alternate fuels
- We offer a full range of solvent recycling options from traditional recycling to tolling, or repurposing to an end use industrial application. Recovered products that are not returned to customers are available for sale.
Benefits of Recycling and Reuse
- Minimizes waste generation and emissions
- Reduces waste disposal cost and raw material procurement
- Has potential to reduce hazardous waste fees
- Enables more favorable Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) reporting
- Improves public relations and corporate image
Chemical and Solvent Recycling
Recycling chemicals and solvents is a sustainable, economical alternative for your operations, and Clean Harbors provides one of the most advanced recycling programs in North America. With nine recycling centers and more than 40 years of solvent recovery experience, we deliver reliable, high-purity results that support your financial, sustainability and environmental goals.
Benefits of Solvent Recycling
Solvent recycling helps minimize waste generation while reducing waste disposal costs and eliminating hazardous waste fees. By recovering and reusing valuable materials, organizations can lower raw material procurement expenses and improve TRI reporting performance. In addition, solvent recycling supports corporate sustainability objectives, enhances public and community relations, and increases shareholder value by demonstrating a commitment to ESG initiatives and responsible environmental stewardship.
CleanFuel
With CleanFuelTM from Clean Harbors, waste is no longer something to be managed, it's part of the solution. CleanFuel is a proprietary alternative fuel solution engineered to convert non-hazardous, pre-approved waste materials into a sustainable energy source for cement kiln operations.
As it becomes fully scaled across our network, CleanFuel is transforming approved waste streams into productive resources that advance your sustainability goals and expand our set of circularity offerings.
Read MoreElectronic Waste (E-Waste) Services
E-Waste is the fastest growing waste stream in the world. This creates challenges for large organizations across various industries who are responsible for handling, storing and disposing of electronics and their components. To address this, Clean Harbors provides a comprehensive recycling solution for electronics, batteries, solar panels and more.
Read MoreLight Bulb Recycling
Clean Harbors provides a variety of options for light bulb recycling and disposal.
Light bulb disposal can be a challenge for many, since a number of bulbs contain materials that can be hazardous. Clean Harbors has your solution with our Light Bulb Recycling services.
We process straight tubes, U-tubes and circular lamps, using a technique that separates the metal, glass, and mercury-containing phosphors, segregating each component into separate containers. The glass and metal are sent to approved local recyclers. All mercury phosphors are sent for refinement at a Clean Harbors-approved retort facility.
Our light bulb recycling process is superior to other bulb destruction units, which typically only crush bulbs, mixing all the components together. Clean Harbors recycles 100 percent of the components of your light bulbs and fully contains any possible hazardous waste.
Clean Harbors Light Bulb Recycling Advantages
- Responsible alternative to landfill
- Our in-house capabilities for final disposal reduces liability
- Superior technology
Reuse, Recycling and Reclamation
Clean Harbors can help your company more effectively and efficiently manage your waste management needs through recycling.
Clean Harbors Recycling and Reuse Program provides a comprehensive step-by-step approach that evaluates your R&D and manufacturing operations and identifies opportunities for efficient waste management. Whether a waste stream or production by-product is sold "as is," recycled or reused, your costs and possible liabilities can be significantly reduced.
Download Chemical Recycling & Reuse Program Brochure
Our comprehensive program will:
- Reduce waste disposal costs
- Minimize waste governed by RCRA regulations, lowering your taxes and annual fees
- Create a positive impact on data reported on your TRI reports
- Reduce the burden and associated costs of regulatory reporting
- Pursue potential buyers of your waste stream
- Preserve your reputation as an environmentally safe company by allowing you to publicize new waste minimization programs
- Share best practices with other locations within your company to maximize value and achieve their sustainability goals
We help you:
- Identify and quantify chemical recycling and reuse options, as well as potential end markets
- Interpret and provide guidance regarding regulations
- Conduct waste process review and manage logistics
- Develop and implement a comprehensive waste management program
Used Oil and Oil Products Recycling
Clean Harbors and its subsidiary, Safety-Kleen, offer a full range of used oil products collection and recycling services. We can pick up, transport and recycle your waste oil, oil filters, antifreeze, and used absorbents. We also clean all oil water separators and provide a variety of product sales and services to automotive service centers, dealerships and fleets.
Clean Harbors and Safety-Kleen can schedule routine pickups at your site, or you can make one call when you need service. And, because we transport your used oil products to our recycling facilities, we offer the highly competitive pricing of a one-stop shop. All of our used oil recycling facilities are in full compliance with state, federal and provincial regulations.
Cost and Environmental Benefits
Recycling used oil products provides a cost-effective advantage over disposal (fuel blending) or incineration. Our recycling services make the following product reuses possible:
- Used oil – Re-refined through Safety-Kleen, North America’s largest re-refiner of used oil
- Used antifreeze – Remanufactured for reuse
- Used oil filters – Utilized as a boiler fuel supplement, burned in approved industrial furnaces and recycled as scrap metal
- Oil water mixtures – Processed to reclaim the oil, which will be used as supplemental boiler fuel
- Used absorbents – Utilized as supplemental fuel at approved energy recovery sites