Recycling Services

Jul 7, 2020

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 solvents, precious metals, chemicals, oil, light bulbs, transformers and other electrical equipment.

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
Saving energy
Decreasing your carbon footprint

Clean Harbors Advantages

Clean Harbors finds beneficial uses for your manufacturing by-products:

We recycle oil, antifreeze and other automotive products.
We blend high BTU liquids, solids and semi-solids for use as supplemental fuel used to manufacture cement.
We offer a full range of solvent recycling options from traditional recycling to tolling, or a combination of the two. Recovered products that are not returned to customers are available for sale.
We disassemble broken or obsolete electronic equipment, light bulbs, small home appliances and utility company transformers and recycle usable materials.

Chemical and Solvent Recycling

Thumbnail Our Chicago, Illinois, recycling facility has six distillation columns, one liquid-to-liquid extractor and one mole sieve dryer.

Recycling and reusing chemical solvents can be an economical alternative for your business, and Clean Harbors can give you that option.

With strategically located recycling facilities, we can recycle used solvents to your specifications and return them to you. If disposal is your preference, we can take your used solvents and recycle them to our own specifications.

Our flexible operations—combined with chemical knowledge and engineering expertise—bring advanced solutions to the challenges of separation and purification.

During the recovery process, components of the solvent/chemical streams are isolated and purified to high-quality product specifications.
Clean Harbors Recycling Services employees are experts in recycling and tolling. All processing meets strict local, state and federal regulations and customer requirements.

We understand the importance of providing a product without cross-contamination, and we consistently deliver quality products.

Recycling Facility Locations
Dolton, Illinois*
Chicago, Illinois
El Dorado, Arkansas*
Hebron, Ohio*
Lexington, Kentucky
Linden, New Jersey*
Seattle, Washington*

*Rail served

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

Best Demonstrated Available Technology (BDAT)

Supports corporate sustainability goals

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

Source: http://www.cleanharbors.com/services/technical-services/recycling-services

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Recycling Services