CLH

Clean Harbors, Inc.

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Is CLH Halal?

Environmental and hazardous-waste services are permissible, but the March 2026 asset-based debt screen is above 33% under the tracked methodologies.

What You Should Know

Clean Harbors, Inc. provides hazardous-waste treatment, environmental and industrial cleaning services, and used-oil re-refining through Safety-Kleen. The core activity is generally permissible and supports public health. Its March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q reports $7,552.566 million of assets, $2,774.017 million of interest-bearing debt, $547.994 million of cash, $121.040 million of short-term marketable securities and $1,113.163 million of accounts receivable. Debt/assets is 36.73%, above the examined 33.333% FTSE and 33% Malaysia limits (and above MSCI's 33.33% limit); liquidity/assets is 8.86% and receivables-plus-cash/assets is 22.00%. The filing reports $6.413 million of interest income, or 0.44% of quarterly revenue. Because the binding leverage screen fails, the current result is doubtful until a methodology-specific review supports a different denominator or the balance sheet changes.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Debt/assets is 36.73% ($2,774.017 million / $7,552.566 million), above the examined asset-based limits
  • Debt includes term loans and senior notes; operating leases are excluded from the tracked debt input
  • The filing does not provide a universal prohibited-activity revenue numerator for all waste streams and customers
  • Interest income/revenue is 0.44%; purification treatment remains scholar- and methodology-dependent
  • Re-screen after a newer filing, acquisition, refinancing or material debt change

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-31; calculated 2026-07-15.

USD · millions
Interest-bearing debt / assets
36.73%Above limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

2,774.017 / 7,552.566

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
8.86%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

669.034 / 7,552.566

Receivables + cash / assets
21.99%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

1,661.157 / 7,552.566

Non-compliant income / revenue
0.44%Within limit
No more than 5% under FTSE Yasaar

6.413 / 1,459.537

FTSE Yasaar
v4.6, February 2026
Financial
Fails
Overall
Fails

Debt/assets is 36.73%, above the examined 33.333% limit; liquidity/assets is 8.86%, receivables plus cash/assets is 22.00% and interest income/revenue is 0.44%.

MSCI Islamic (total-assets series)
October 2024 methodology
Financial
Fails
Overall
Fails

Debt/assets is 36.73%, above the examined 33.33% total-assets limit; liquidity and receivables-plus-cash ratios pass the other examined limits.

Malaysia SAC financial ratios
single 5% activity benchmark adopted November 2025
Financial
Fails
Overall
Fails

Debt/assets is 36.73%, above the examined 33% limit; this is not an official SAC classification.

Market-cap denominator methods
MSCI M-Series, S&P and Dow Jones methods differ
Financial
Not calculated
Overall
Fails

A licensed historical market-cap series is not stored; the asset-based debt screen already fails.

Business-activity disclosure

Clean Harbors provides hazardous-waste treatment, environmental services, industrial cleaning and used-oil re-refining. These services are generally permissible and support public health, but the filing does not create a scholar-approved prohibited-activity revenue numerator.

Limitation: The filing reports segment revenue but does not quantify a universal prohibited-activity numerator for all customers, waste streams or downstream uses.

Purification

Clean Harbors discloses $6.413 million of interest income, or 0.44% of quarterly revenue, but no scholar-approved fixed purification percentage is inferred.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Amounts are USD millions from Clean Harbors' March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q.
  • Debt combines $12.600 million of current debt and $2,761.417 million of long-term debt at carrying value; operating leases are excluded.
  • Cash and cash equivalents are $547.994 million and short-term marketable securities are $121.040 million.
  • Accounts receivable, net are $1,113.163 million; unbilled accounts receivable of $192.241 million is not added to the trade-receivable field.
  • Quarterly revenue is $1,459.537 million and disclosed interest income is $6.413 million.

This is a reproducible financial screen, not a fatwa. A failed total-assets screen can coexist with a pass under a market-cap methodology. ZakatInvest keeps the qualitative assessment separate so numerical thresholds do not erase material context.

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