REVENUES

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2022

Revenue from Contract with Customer [Abstract]

REVENUES

REVENUES

The Company’s third-party revenues are disaggregated by geographic location and source of revenue as management believes these categories depict how revenue and cash flows are affected by economic factors. The Company's significant sources of revenue include:

Technical Services—Technical Services contribute to the revenues of the Environmental Services operating segment. Revenues for these services are generated from fees charged for waste material management and disposal services including onsite environmental management services, large remediation projects, collection and transportation, packaging, recycling, treatment and disposal of waste. Revenue is primarily generated by short-term projects, most of which are governed by master service agreements that are long-term in nature. These master service agreements are typically entered into with the Company's larger customers and outline the pricing and legal frameworks for such arrangements. Services are provided based on purchase orders or agreements with the customer and include prices based upon units of volume of waste, and transportation and other fees. Collection and transportation revenues are recognized over time, as the customer receives and consumes the benefits of the services as they are being performed and the Company has a right to payment for performance completed to date. The Company uses the input method to recognize revenue over time, based on time and materials incurred as a basis for measuring the satisfaction of the performance obligation. Revenues for treatment and disposal of waste are recognized upon completion of treatment, final disposition in a landfill or incineration, or when the waste is shipped to a third-party for processing and disposal. The Company periodically enters into bundled arrangements for the collection and transportation and disposal of waste. For such arrangements, transportation and disposal are considered distinct performance obligations and the Company allocates revenue to each based on the relative standalone selling price (i.e., the estimated price that a customer would pay for the services on a standalone basis). Revenues and the related costs from waste that is not yet completely processed and disposed of are deferred. The deferred revenues and costs are recognized when the services are completed. The period between collection and transportation and the final processing and disposal ranges depending on the location of the customer, but generally is measured in days.

Field and Emergency Response Services—Field and Emergency Response Services contribute to the revenues of the Environmental Services operating segment. Field Services revenues are generated from cleanup services at customer sites, including those managed by municipalities and utility providers, or other locations on a scheduled or emergency response basis. Services include confined space entry for tank cleaning, site decontamination, remediation, railcar cleaning, manhole/vault clean outs, product recovery and transfer and vacuum services. Additional services include filtration and water treatment services. Response services for environmental emergencies of any scale range from man-made disasters such as oil spills to natural disasters such as hurricanes. Emergency response services also include spill cleanup on land and water, contagion disinfection, decontamination and disposal services most recently in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Field and emergency response services are provided based on purchase orders or agreements with customers and include prices generally based upon daily, hourly or job rates for equipment, materials and personnel. The Company recognizes revenue for these services over time, as the customer receives and consumes the benefits of the services as they are being performed and the Company has a right to payment for performance completed to date. The

Company uses the input method to recognize revenue over time, based on time and materials incurred. The duration of such services can be over a number of hours, several days or even months for larger scale projects.

Industrial Services and Other—Industrial Services contribute to the revenues of the Environmental Services operating segment. These revenues are primarily generated from industrial and specialty services provided to refineries, mines, upgraders, chemical plants, pulp and paper mills, manufacturing facilities, power generation facilities and other industrial customers throughout North America. Services include in-plant cleaning and maintenance services, plant outage and turnaround services, specialty cleaning services including chemical cleaning, pigging and high and ultra-high pressure water cleaning, leak detection and repair, daylighting, production services and upstream energy services. Services are provided based on purchase orders or agreements with the customer and include prices based upon daily, hourly or job rates for equipment, materials and personnel. The Company recognizes revenue for these services over time, as the customer receives and consumes the benefits of the services as they are being performed and the Company has a right to payment for performance completed to date. The Company uses the input method to recognize revenue over time, based on time and materials incurred.

Safety-Kleen Environmental Services—Safety-Kleen Environmental Services revenues contribute both to the Environmental Services operating segment and the Safety-Kleen Sustainability Solutions operating segment depending upon the nature of such revenues and operating responsibilities relative to executing the revenue contracts. Revenues from providing containerized waste handling and disposal services, parts washer services and vacuum services, referred to collectively as the Safety-Kleen branches' core service offerings, contribute to the revenues of the Environmental Services operating segment. In addition, sales of packaged blended oil products and other complementary product sales contribute to the revenues of the Environmental Services operating segment. Revenues generated from waste oil, anti-freeze and oil filter collection services, sales of bulk blended oil products and sales of bulk automotive fluids contribute to the Safety-Kleen Sustainability Solutions operating segment.

Generally, the revenue from services is recognized over time, as the customer receives and consumes the benefits of the services as they are being performed and the Company has a right to payment for performance completed to date. The duration of such services can be over a number of hours or several days. The Company uses the input method to recognize revenue over time, based on time and materials incurred. Product revenue is recognized upon the transfer of control whereby control transfers when the products are delivered to the customer. Containerized waste services consist of profiling, collecting, transporting and recycling or disposing of a wide variety of waste. Related collection and transportation revenues are recognized over time, as the customer receives and consumes the benefits of the services as they are being performed and the Company has a right to payment for performance completed to date. Parts washer services include customer use of our parts washer equipment, cleaning and maintenance of the parts washer equipment and removal and replacement of used cleaning fluids. Parts washer services are considered a single performance obligation due to the highly integrated and interdependent nature of the arrangement. Revenue from parts washer services is recognized over the service interval as the customer receives the benefit of the services.

Safety-Kleen Oil—Safety-Kleen Oil related sales contribute to the revenues of the Safety-Kleen Sustainability Solutions segment. These revenues are generated from sales of high-quality base and blended lubricating oils to third-party distributors, government agencies, fleets, railroads and industrial customers. The business also sells recycled fuel oil to asphalt plants, industrial plants and pulp and paper companies. The used oil is also processed into vacuum gas oil which can be further re-refined into lubricant base oils or sold directly into the marine diesel oil fuel market. Revenue for oil products is recognized at a point in time, upon the transfer of control. Control transfers when the products are delivered to the customer.

The following tables present the Company's third-party revenue disaggregated by source of revenue and geography (in thousands):

	For the Three Months Ended September 30, 2022
	Environmental Services		Safety-Kleen Sustainability Solutions		Corporate		Total
Primary Geographical Markets
United States	$	960,737	$	249,035	$	283	$	1,210,055
Canada	119,295		33,736		—		153,031
Total third-party revenues	$	1,080,032	$	282,771	$	283	$	1,363,086
Sources of Revenue
Technical Services	$	398,664	$	—	$	—	$	398,664
Field and Emergency Response Services	150,031		—		—		150,031
Industrial Services and Other	332,025		—		283		332,308
Safety-Kleen Environmental Services	199,312		52,072		—		251,384
Safety-Kleen Oil	—		230,699		—		230,699
Total third-party revenues	$	1,080,032	$	282,771	$	283	$	1,363,086

	For the Three Months Ended September 30, 2021
	Environmental Services		Safety-Kleen Sustainability Solutions		Corporate		Total
Primary Geographical Markets
United States	$	632,755	$	185,096	$	59	$	817,910
Canada	111,076		22,493		—		133,569
Total third-party revenues	$	743,831	$	207,589	$	59	$	951,479
Sources of Revenue
Technical Services	$	308,158	$	—	$	—	$	308,158
Field and Emergency Response Services	116,677		—		—		116,677
Industrial Services and Other	154,977		—		59		155,036
Safety-Kleen Environmental Services	164,019		39,551		—		203,570
Safety-Kleen Oil	—		168,038		—		168,038
Total third-party revenues	$	743,831	$	207,589	$	59	$	951,479

	For the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2022
	Environmental Services		Safety-Kleen Sustainability Solutions		Corporate		Total
Primary Geographical Markets
United States	$	2,740,994	$	688,444	$	434	$	3,429,872
Canada	364,342		94,293		—		458,635
Total third-party revenues	$	3,105,336	$	782,737	$	434	$	3,888,507
Sources of Revenue
Technical Services	$	1,109,339	$	—	$	—	$	1,109,339
Field and Emergency Response Services	427,250		—		—		427,250
Industrial Services and Other	1,001,733		—		434		1,002,167
Safety-Kleen Environmental Services	567,014		145,841		—		712,855
Safety-Kleen Oil	—		636,896		—		636,896
Total third-party revenues	$	3,105,336	$	782,737	$	434	$	3,888,507

	For the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2021
	Environmental Services		Safety-Kleen Sustainability Solutions		Corporate		Total
Primary Geographical Markets
United States	$	1,824,848	$	504,302	$	217	$	2,329,367
Canada	295,008		61,710		—		356,718
Total third-party revenues	$	2,119,856	$	566,012	$	217	$	2,686,085
Sources of Revenue
Technical Services	$	887,063	$	—	$	—	$	887,063
Field and Emergency Response Services	328,831		—		—		328,831
Industrial Services and Other	425,154		—		217		425,371
Safety-Kleen Environmental Services	478,808		118,982		—		597,790
Safety-Kleen Oil	—		447,030		—		447,030
Total third-party revenues	$	2,119,856	$	566,012	$	217	$	2,686,085

The operations related to HydroChemPSC, which the Company acquired on October 8, 2021, have been fully integrated into the Industrial Services and Field Services operations of the Company. Third-party revenues generated from the acquired HydroChemPSC business are no longer separately identifiable.

Contract Balances

(in thousands)	September 30, 2022		December 31, 2021
Receivables	$	1,026,226	$	792,734
Contract assets (unbilled receivables)	134,742		94,963
Contract liabilities (deferred revenue)	93,425		83,749

The timing of revenue recognition, billings and cash collections results in billed accounts receivable, unbilled receivables (contract assets) and customer advances and deposits or deferred revenue (contract liabilities) on the consolidated balance sheet. Generally, billing occurs subsequent to revenue recognition, as a right to payment is not just subject to passage of time, resulting in contract assets. Contract assets are generally classified as current. The Company sometimes receives advances or deposits from its customers before revenue is recognized, resulting in contract liabilities. These assets and liabilities are reported on the consolidated balance sheet on a contract-by-contract basis at the end of each reporting period. The contract liability balances at the beginning of each period presented were generally fully recognized in the subsequent three-month period.