Intertek North America teams mark Earth Day with community clean-ups
04 May 2026
Colleagues take part in annual Trash Tag Challenge
For Earth Day 2026, Intertek colleagues across the U.S. and Canada participated in the annual Trash Tag Challenge, an online movement which encourages people to care for their local communities. From local parks and rivers to office and laboratory grounds, our teams came together to collect litter, remove debris and help keep outdoor environments clean.
In Cortland, New York, 25 employees spent a sunny afternoon cleaning up five parks. In Plano, Texas, Building & Construction colleagues volunteered at their local park, while the Westport, Texas, team partnered with the Parks Department to collect trash and spread mulch at another park.
In San Antonio, Texas, a team of 22 employees, family members and friends participated in the city’s annual Waterway Clean-Up, working along the Zarzamora Creek tributary near the Intertek campus. This marked the team’s fifth consecutive year participating in the event. With less debris to collect than in previous years, their continued efforts are helping make a visible difference in the local environment.
Teams in Lake Forest, California; The Woodlands, Texas; and Fridley, Minnesota, also rolled up their sleeves to clean up local parks and facility grounds. In The Woodlands, the team’s efforts helped prepare a local park ahead of the FIFA World Cup matches coming to Houston.
Across our Alchemy and Wisetail businesses, colleagues in Austin, Texas; Bozeman, Montana; Denver, Colorado; and Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, also volunteered in their communities through clean-up efforts and other environmental projects.
The Trash Tag Challenge extended beyond organised team events with several individual employees participating in initiatives including tree planting and community clean-ups.
Together, these efforts demonstrate how small actions can have a meaningful local impact. Whether cleaning up a neighborhood park, restoring a riverbank, planting a tree or bringing the next generation into the effort, our colleagues are finding ways to care for the communities and environments where they live and work.
