Transportation

Clean Harbors vast equipment, expertise and locations throughout North America enable us to provide a variety of environmental and emergency services for the Transportation industry.

With in-house resources like our trained field crews, our network of specialized equipment and transportation vehicles, and our disposal facilities, Clean Harbors can control costs and liability. Our comprehensive Transportation services include used oil and oil filter collection, liquid and dry vacuuming, hydro blasting, and chemical cleaning of reactors, kettles, tanks and vessels, exchangers and towers. We also perform sump and sewer line cleaning, pipeline cleaning, container rental and management and general maintenance, complex above-ground tank cleaning, materials processing and remediation.

Our Transportation industry clients include trucking, railroads and rail lines, airports and airlines, airfreight, ports and cruise lines, shipping companies and tug and barge companies. With extensive experience serving a wide variety of entities, Clean Harbors helps transportation companies maintain regulatory compliance and manage waste.

Transportation Industry Services We Provide

  • Waste Disposal Services
  • CleanPack® Laboratory Chemical Packing
  • Emergency Response
  • InSite Services
  • Marine Services
  • Tank Cleaning
Waste Disposal Services

Waste Disposal Services

Overview

Waste Disposal

Clean Harbors Waste Disposal Services provide the widest range of treatment and disposal options in the industry for all of your hazardous and non-hazardous waste. 

Unmatched in North America, our facilities provide services for all of the United States, Canada, northern Mexico and Puerto Rico. We handle drum and bulk hazardous waste in liquid, solid, semi-solid, sludge and gas forms.

When choosing a hazardous waste disposal company, your disposal needs are our business. We’ll work hard for your business.

One Call Handles All of Your Hazardous Waste Disposal Needs

Organizing multiple vendors is costly, time-consuming and it can leave gaps in your hazardous waste program that increase your risk or leave you open to problems with compliance.

Employing the most advanced technologies, we provide a single source for all of your hazardous waste disposal needs, making the entire process easier, safer and more cost-effective. From PCBs to cyanides and explosives, our hazardous waste removal services handle it all through a highly coordinated truck, rail and ship transportation network.

CleanPack® Laboratory Chemical Packing

CleanPack® Laboratory Chemical Packing

Overview

 Our chemists access a database with more than 150,000 unique chemicals for laboratory chemical packing.
Our chemists access a database with more than 150,000 unique chemicals for laboratory chemical packing.

Clean Harbors proprietary CleanPack Laboratory Chemical Packing services provide proper recognition, handling, packaging, transportation and disposal of laboratory chemicals. We also perform laboratory relocations, closures and cleanouts.

Clean Harbors can manage virtually any chemical found in a laboratory environment including:

  • RCRA and non-RCRA chemicals
  • TSCA, DEA, radioactive, mixed waste and universal waste 
  • Biological and etiological chemicals
  • Compressed gas and cylinders 
  • Toxic, flammable, oxidizer, organic peroxide and corrosive materials 
  • Pyrophoric, gases, aerosol, unknown, reactive, explosive and shock-sensitive materials 
  • Ethers, THF, dioxane and sodium azide

Compliance

Throughout the chemical packing and disposal process, our skilled chemists help ensure your compliance with the latest EPA, DOT, TDG and Environment Canada regulations and record-keeping. 

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Emergency Response

Emergency Response

Overview

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Clean Harbors responds to more than 13,000 emergencies each year.

With more than 100 response locations in North America, Clean Harbors has the manpower, equipment and technical expertise to manage any size environmental emergency on land or water.

When evaluating emergency response companies, know that Clean Harbors can rapidly deploy experienced, fully certified workers to meet the needs of any incident in the United States, Canada or Puerto Rico.

  • Emergency spill clean up
  • Over-the-road incidents 
  • Punctured lines 
  • Tank overflows 
  • Leaking drums 
  • Saddle tank spills 
  • Large pipeline ruptures 
  • Mercury spills
  • Biological and infectious materials 
  • Ship groundings 
  • Tanker truck rollovers 
  • Chemical and hazardous material spills 
  • Oil spills
  • Hurricane, earthquake and storm damage 
  • Emergency lab packs
  • Homeland security and terrorist attack responses
  • Releases in warehouses and distribution centers
  • Excavation of buried drums and cylinders

Download Clean Harbors Emergency Response Resource Book for US
Download Clean Harbors Emergency Response Resource Book for Canada (English)
Download Clean Harbors Emergency Response Resource Book for Canada (French)
Download Emergency Response Brochure
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Rapid Response and Containment

Varying by the response, spills typically can be contained within the first few hours, with minimal remediation in the next 48 hours. Clean Harbors works under all local, state and federal guidelines (EPA, OSHA, USCG, etc.) when performing containment and cleanup. Waste for off-site disposal is packaged and prepared for shipment to a waste treatment and disposal facility. 

Emergency Preparedness

Clean Harbors Emergency Response experts can provide guidance on emergency management, operations, planning, logistics and more. Our Standby Emergency Response Coverage ensures that you have the necessary coverage and response in the event of an environmental emergency.

Oil Spill Removal Organization (OSRO)

Under the U.S. Coast Guard’s OSRO Classification Program, Clean Harbors holds Captain of the Port ratings for facilities and vessels in 56 ports throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. 

Emergency Operations Center

Clean Harbors operates an Emergency Operations Center where duty operators certified in DOT and RCRA can help you 24/7. One number, one call: 800.645.8265

InSite Services®

InSite Services®

Overview

Clean Harbors InSite Services is a branded on-site/in-plant service delivery program through which we provide a full range of environmental, industrial and waste management offerings. This signature program is built on safety, quality, efficiency and integrity—and has been offered by Clean Harbors for over 20 years.

By leveraging Clean Harbors expertise and capabilities, our on-site staffs are dedicated to developing the safest, most cost-effective solutions to service customers’ needs. This includes collecting and packaging waste materials, managing satellite accumulation areas, cleaning in-plant locations and running RCRA treatment processes.

One Source. More Resources.

A Clean Harbors InSite partnership delivers process improvement and cost savings opportunities, thus allowing you to maximize your profitability by focusing on your core business needs. 

InSite Services We Provide

  • Chemical waste pickup
  • Solvent can management
  • Laboratory inspections
  • SAA inspections
  • Administrative support
  • Safety equipment inspections
  • Biohazard container management
  • Radiological services
  • Laboratory cleaning
  • Laboratory moves
  • Bulk storage tank management
  • Consolidation and lab packing
Maritime Services

Maritime Services

Overview

 We provide protective marine booming for ships and barges and line handling for tie-off or let-go at ports and facilities across North America.
We provide protective marine booming for ships and barges and line handling for tie-off or let-go at ports and facilities across North America.

With extensive in-house resources―from our trained field crews to our network of specialized equipment to our disposal facilities―Clean Harbors controls costs and liability while providing turnkey solutions for your maritime service needs.  

Clean Harbors brings decades of marine experience to our Maritime Services, operating in most ports across the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. In addition to our many locations, our robust equipment inventory―including more than 240 vessels, 100 skimmers and 360,000 feet of containment boom—ensures that we can respond quickly to your maritime needs. We effectively handle any size release, and we provide emergency response and response readiness for oil and chemical spills on water and land.

U.S. Coast Guard Oil Spill Removal Organization (OSRO) 

As a classified OSRO, Clean Harbors holds Captain of the Port (COTP) ratings for facilities and vessels in 56 ports and is approved for ship-to-shore transfer operations in 22 COTPs.

Other Maritime Services

  • Onboard maritime services to meet American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) Standards
  • Port services and facility operational support
  • Average Most Probable Discharge (AMPD) Coverage for transfer and lightering operations.
  • Hazardous and non-hazardous waste disposal and recycling
  • Decommissioning, cleaning and abatement for shipyards, dry docks and breaking facilities 
  • Offshore and nearshore petroleum services in the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Maritimes
Tank Cleaning

Tank Cleaning

Overview

 For large tanks, we bring in on-site material processing systems to reduce the volume of waste generated from the cleaning process.
We can clean tanks of any shape and size, even tanks located inside buildings or at a remote location.

Clean Harbors Tank Cleaning experts perform a broad spectrum of cleaning tasks for industrial facilities, municipalities and utility companies.

Maintaining your equipment at its highest operational capacity is critical, and that includes keeping tanks clean and compliant with EH&S regulations. Clean Harbors handles a broad spectrum of cleaning from 10-gallon acid neutralization tanks for medical companies to six-million-gallon 240-foot-diameter refinery tanks.

Tank Cleaning Services We Provide

  • Wastewater treatment neutralization for compliance with wastewater discharge regulations
  • Tank maintenance and inspection 
  • Fuel oil tank cleaning 
  • Utility manhole and vault cleaning 
  • Tank and vessel cleaning during decommissioning and industrial renovations 
  • Large-scale tank cleaning 
  • IOS and rail-car container cleaning

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The Clean Harbors Difference

Clean Harbors not only performs tank cleaning—we also remove the waste generated from the cleaning process and dispose of it safely using our own vehicles and treatment facilities. This additional benefit sets us apart and saves our clients time, money and hassle.