Company: CLH
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000822818-25-000007
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Company: CLEAN HARBORS INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
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, we operate the largest number of commercial hazardous waste incinerators, landfills, treatment facilities and TSDFs in North America. We have a footprint of service locations spanning the U.S. and Canada and we manage a sizeable fleet of more than 20,000 vehicles across this coast to coast network. Our extensive service network enables us to effectively handle hazardous waste streams from origin to safe disposal in one of our various waste outlets, internalizing the transportation to reduce costs. Our disposal facilities are very difficult to duplicate and maintain because, in addition to the substantial required capital investments, there are significant permitting, regulatory approvals and ongoing compliance regulations necessary in order for new commercial waste disposal sites to come online and remain operational. In addition, expertise gained through years of experience is paramount to safely operating such facilities. These longstanding capabilities exhibited by us create a competitive advantage and provide substantial value for our network.

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•Comprehensive Service Capabilities Complementing our Customers’ Sustainability Goals - Our comprehensive service offerings and product catalog allow us to act as a full service provider for our customers’ needs. Customers can rely on Clean Harbors not only as a sustainability partner, but also to minimize the number of outside vendors, making us their “one-stop-shop” service provider. Our breadth of service offerings creates incremental revenue growth with no single competitor offering the portfolio of services that we can provide to our customers. Our workforce is trained to fulfill a multitude of customer needs and our complementary lines of business help keep us steady in times of market uncertainty. In addition, our proprietary and integrated technology platforms utilized to deliver our services provide a competitive advantage for us and continuous investments provide incremental value to our customers' experience.

•Used Motor Oil Collection and Re-refining Capabilities - As the largest re-refiner and recycler of used oil in North America, in 2024 we collected 253 million gallons of used oil and processed these used oil gallons, along with additives and some additionally purchased used oil, into approximately 249 million gallons of new re-refined base oil, lubricants and byproducts which were returned back into the marketplace. Our capability to serve as an outlet for used lubricants in the marketplace, which we then re-refine and convert into high-quality, environmentally responsible recycled products, distinguishes us from many competitors. This process also provides an alternative to other disposal options of the used lubricants. In 2024, by collecting and then re-refining this used oil, we helped avoid the creation of approximately 2.4 million metric