The Engineering News-Record (ENR) ranked Clean Harbors third in its annual "Top 200 Environmental Firms" list. The slot is up two from 2016's fifth place rank. In addition to the full rankings, Clean Harbors placed top 20 in a number of subcategories, including No. 1 hazardous waste firm - more than doubling the revenue of the second ranked company. Clean Harbors was also named the best firm for…
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Crews from the company Clean Harbors began power-washing sidewalks and street areas with a bleach and chlorine solution in downtown San Diego on Monday as part of an effort to stop the spread of hepatitis A among homeless people. The area cleaned Monday included sidewalks around 17th Street and Imperial Avenue, where hundreds of homeless congregate and live in tents and other shelters along city…
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Clean Harbors is continuing to send people, supplies and resources to the Texas Gulf Coast to assist in the massive relief effort, bringing its 15 affected facilities in the region back to full operations, helping its employees and other victims and aiding its customers in their clean-up and recovery. Immediately following the hurricane, Clean Harbors crews joined search and rescue efforts.…
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Clean Harbors acquired Lonestar West earlier this month, a move that immediately vaults the company into the upper-echelon of hydro excavation service providers in the United States and Canada. An Alberta-based company, Lonsestar specializes in hydro excavation and daylighting - a safer water and vacuum alternative to traditional, hard edged digging that can damage underground pipes and wires.…
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Clean Harbors gained approval for plans to expand the Elgin, Ill., Safety-Kleen research and development branch to include a refurbishment center. Two facilities will be constructed and 25 people hired to help build state-of-the-art vehicles with the latest safety equipment and superior fuel-efficiency. Two older buildings will also be removed as various aesthetic upgrades are made to the campus…
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Heeding the call of environmentally-focused fifth graders in Las Vegas, a Clean Harbors employee helped educate the class about sustainability and is now giving them a hand in setting up a school-wide composting program. Clean Harbors Field Services Account Manager Tom Murphy spoke to the class for the first time in February. Students wanted to set up a system of boxes to separate waste, food…
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At the end of 2016, for the first time in two decades, a new commercial hazardous waste incinerator built in the U.S. came on-line. The $120 million incinerator, operated by Clean Harbors in El Dorado, Ark., can handle industrial and laboratory chemicals, manufacturing by-products, medical waste, and other solid and liquid materials. "As all chemists know, you can't destroy or create matter,"…
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No longer will Grant Sheriff Steve McCain have to tell flood victims that help may be there the next day, not after obtaining a fleet of watercraft through a grant and a donation. The three boats, an airboat and a personal watercraft -- a Sea-Doo search and rescue craft -- were added to the department through a $250,000 competitive grant secured through the Louisiana State Fire Marshal's Office…
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Responsible Management of Hazardous Waste, At Lambton, we comply with rigorous government environmental regulations and use the best practices of our industry to ensure that hazardous materials are properly identified and responsibly handled. This series of standard operating procedures protects our employees, customers, neighbours, the public and the environment. It includes:, Waste Characterization, Our management process begins at the hazardous waste generator's site and extends to the Lambton facility's state-of-the-art analytical laboratory. Details of the generator's production process, as well as the composition and volume of the waste, are carefully researched by a Clean Harbors technical representative before the waste is accepted at Lambton. Skilled chemists, technologists and…
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Lambton facility's secure landfill isolates solid hazardous waste from the surrounding natural environment using sound management, modern design technology and technique, and the site's natural ability to contain contaminants. lambton landfill
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