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Item 2. Properties

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Our principal executive offices are in Norwell, Massachusetts.

In the first quarter of 2020, we purchased our primary executive office building in Norwell which occupies 104,008 square feet.

We also currently lease 52,418 square feet of additional office space in Norwell under arrangements which may not expire until 2042 .

We also have regional administrative offices in Texas and South Carolina, as well as Alberta, Canada and Hyderabad, India.

We own our primary executive office building in Massachusetts which occupies 104,000 square feet.

We also currently lease 52,400 square feet of additional office space in Norwell, Massachusetts under arrangements which may not expire until 2042.

We have regional administrative offices in Texas and South Carolina, as well as Alberta, Canada and Hyderabad, India.

Our properties are sufficient and suitable for our current needs.

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Those service locations include service centers, satellite locations, branches, active hazardous waste management properties, lodging facilities and oil processing facilities.

The service centers and branches are the principal sales and service centers from which we provide our environmental, energy and industrial services.

The active hazardous waste management properties include incinerator facilities, commercial and non-commercial landfills, wastewater treatment facilities, TSDFs, solvent recovery management and recycling facilities, oil accumulation centers, oil terminals and oil re-refineries.

Some of our properties offer multiple capabilities.

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Service Centers, Satellite Locations and Branches

We have approximately 360 service centers, satellite locations and branches throughout the United States and Canada which serve as principal sales and service centers from which we provide parts cleaning services, containerized waste services, oil collection services and other environmental services.

We have approximately 353 service centers, satellite locations and branches throughout the United States and Canada which serve as principal sales and service centers from which we provide our environmental and industrial services for the Environmental Services business and our parts cleaning, containerized waste and oil collection services for our Safety-Kleen business.

Active Hazardous Waste Management Properties

Incinerator Facilities.

We own five operating incinerator facilities that have a total of nine incinerators with 561,721 tons of total practical capacity and an overall average utilization rate for 2019 of 84.6% .

We own and operate five incinerator facilities that have a total of nine incinerators with 561,721 tons of total practical capacity and an overall average utilization rate for 2020 of 84.1%.

Our practical capacity is not based on a theoretical 24-hour, seven-day operation, but rather is determined as the production level at which our incinerators can operate with an acceptable degree of efficiency, taking into consideration factors such as longer term customer demand, permanent staffing levels, operating shifts, holidays, scheduled maintenance and mix of product.

Capacity utilization is calculated by dividing actual production tons by practical capacity at each incinerator.

# of Incinerators

Practical Capacity (Tons)

Utilization Rate

The following table summarizes the practical capacity and utilization for each incinerator for the year ended December 31, 2020:

# of Incinerators Practical Capacity (Tons) Utilization Rate

December 31, 2020

Arkansas 3 145,072 90.9 %

Nebraska 1 58,808 82.9 %

Utah 1 66,815 81.7 %

Texas 3 165,500 79.5 %

Ontario, Canada 1 125,526 84.2 %

9 561,721 84.1 %

Our incinerators offer a wide range of technological capabilities to customers through this network.

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Commercial and Non-Commercial Landfills.

In the United States and Canada, we operate nine commercial landfills with approximately 28.2 million cubic yards of remaining highly probable airspace.

Seven of our commercial landfills are designed and permitted for the disposal of hazardous waste and two landfills are operated for nonhazardous industrial waste disposal and, to a lesser extent, municipal solid waste.

In the United States and Canada, we now operate seven commercial landfills with approximately 24.5 million cubic yards of remaining highly probable airspace.

Six of our commercial landfills are designed and permitted for the disposal of hazardous waste and one landfill is operated for nonhazardous industrial waste disposal and, to a lesser extent, municipal solid waste.

In addition to our commercial landfills, we also own and operate two non-commercial landfills that only accept waste from our on-site incinerators.

See "Landfill Accounting" within Note 2, "Significant Accounting Policies," to our consolidated financial statements included in Item 8 of this report for additional information on our commercial and non-commercial landfills.

During 2020, we took actions to begin the closure of our Altair and Westmorland commercial landfills.

Altair, a nonhazardous landfill, reached permitted capacity during the year.

The Company decided to close the Westmorland landfill, a hazardous landfill, due to the cost of obtaining and maintaining permits and operating the landfill.

These landfills are excluded from the landfill counts above.

See "Landfill Final Closure and Post-Closure Liabilities" within "Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates" included in Item 7 of this report and "Landfill Accounting" within Note 2, "Significant Accounting Policies," to our consolidated financial statements included in Item 8 of this report for additional information on our commercial and non-commercial landfills.

Wastewater Treatment Facilities.

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Treatment, Storage and Disposal Facilities.

We operate 18 TSDFs, of which 16 are owned and two are leased, in the United States and Canada.

We operate 27 TSDFs, of which 24 are owned and three are leased, in the United States and Canada.

Our TSDFs facilitate the movement of materials among our network of service centers and treatment and disposal facilities.

Transportation may be accomplished by truck, rail, barge or a combination of modes, with our own assets or in conjunction with third-party transporters.

Specially designed containment systems, vehicles and other equipment permitted for hazardous and industrial waste transport, together with drivers trained in transportation and waste handling procedures, provide for the movement of customer waste streams.

Solvent Recovery Management and Recycling Operations.

Specially designed containment systems, vehicles and other equipment permitted for waste transport, together with drivers trained in transportation and waste handling procedures, provide for the movement of customer waste streams.

Other Hazardous Waste Management Properties.

We own two facilities specializing in solvent recovery management.

We also own one autoclave facility specifically designed to treat medical waste.

Oil Processing, Blending and Packaging Facilities

Oil Accumulation Centers.

We operate a total of nine accumulation centers, of which eight are owned and one is leased, used for accumulating waste oil from our branches.

Oil Terminals.

We operate a total of 53 oil terminals, of which 33 are owned and 20 are leased, which collect or process used oil prior to delivery to re-refineries or distribution as RFO.

We operate a total of 69 oil terminals, of which 40 are owned and 29 are leased, which collect or process used oil prior to delivery to our re-refineries or distribution as recycled fuel oil.

Oil Recycling and Re-refining Facilities.

We own six oil re-refineries, five in the United States and one in Canada.

With more than 200 million gallons of used oil processed annually, we were able to return 191 million gallons of new re-refined oil, lubricants and byproducts back into the marketplace in 2019 .

We own seven oil re-refineries, six in the United States and one in Canada.

With nearly 200.0 million gallons of used oil processed annually, we were able to return 166 million gallons of new re-refined oil, lubricants and byproducts back into the marketplace in 2020.

Oil Packaging and Blending Facilities.

We operate a total of five oil packaging and blending facilities, of which three are owned and two are leased, which are used for blending and packaging oil from our branches.

Lodging Facilities

Lodge Operations.

We own and operate six fixed lodges, five of which are in Western Canada and a single lodge in Texas.

These lodges are all located on sites which are leased by the Company under long-term land lease agreements.

We operate various camp facilities that can grow and shrink in size and location.

Generally, we have ongoing operations at one to two larger facilities that we expect to operate on a multi-year basis.

Additionally, we have five office complexes, two mini-camps and approximately 20 single and double occupancy drill camps in our fleet that can operate at any time.

All of our camp facilities are owned and located on various sites throughout Western Canada.

Sites for the larger facilities are generally leased, whereas sites for our smaller facilities are generally provided by our customers.

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