Intertek USA accepted the Annual Trash Tag Challenge to celebrate Earth Day 2024, heading outdoors to local parks, rivers, and office and laboratory sites to clean up trash, plant trees, and support other environmental efforts. These local initiatives help to reduce waste and plastic pollution, improve habitats and biodiversity, and prevent harm to wildlife and humans, which can inspire even larger environmental action in our communities.

Teams from around the country shared their stories and pictures of their Earth Day activities for others to use as inspiration every day.

Intertek Wisetail collaborated and partnered with the National Forest Foundation and Gallatin Valley Land Trust in Montana. These lands not only support recreation heritage and the outdoor lifestyle, but also supply water to millions of Americans across numerous communities, purify our air, sequester carbon, and offer timber, minerals, oil and gas, and other resources vital to industry and society. 

The Wisetail team has two initiatives for staff. The first is called Hot Laps, Wisetail donates a dollar for every hot lap an employee completes. 1 Hot Lap = 5K running, walking, or biking. This encourages the team to be active & support our Earth. The second initiative is the Wisetail New Business Sales Initiative. This is the second year that they have hosted a Sales Initiative to help donate to the NFF. Each New Business deal that they win, Wisetail donates to the NFF.

Description: On April 13th Denise Schroetter (Caleb Brett) and her son (as part of his Hazlet Boy Scout Troop 137) joined 135 others to participate in the Clean Ocean Action’s spring cleanup along New Jersey beaches. 

Description: The York, Pennsylvania Green Team, along with employee volunteers (17 people total) participated in a Campus Cleanup Day.

Description: A team from our San Antonio, Texas location participated in the Annual Basura Bash City-wide Watershed Clean-up, helping to clean up clothing, tires, shopping carts, plastic bottles, and car mats from the tributary that is close to their primary lab site. 

Description: Our colleagues from the Baytown, Texas office participated in a tree planting at their facility from start to finish: they purchased everything they needed from their local home improvement store then everyone got to work digging the hole, planting, and mulching the tree. 

Description: Our great team in Corpus Christi, Texas went on “Beach Patrol” at North Beach in Corpus Christi to do beach clean-up in observance of Earth Day 2024. The team also helped the environment and the beautification of their office by planting a citrus tree outside of the branch location.

Description: The Caleb Brett team in Texas City, Texas hosted a Team Growing event where they planted a peach tree to symbolize the team growing together as an office and every year they will eat the juicy peaches to enjoy the fruits of their labor. It was truly a team effort as everyone put at least one shovel of dirt onto the tree and a plaque will be made with everyone’s name on it to dedicate the peach tree to the 2024 Intertek Texas City team. 

Description: The Cortland Kindness Committee teamed up with HazLoc and Design Services to organize a community cleanup for Earth Day to help remove litter from parks and green spaces in the community. More than 40 employees collected trash from four locations during the cleanup.

Description: For Earth Day 2024, our Caleb Brett operations and lab colleagues in Nederland, Texas, planted an orange tree outside the facility.

Description: In Freeport, Texas, the Intertek Caleb Brett team planted an orange tree for a Team Growing event at their facility to symbolize the team growing together as an office. Year after year the team will be able to eat the oranges to enjoy the fruits of their labor. It was truly a team effort as everyone put at least one shovel of dirt onto the tree and a plaque will be made with everyone’s name on it to dedicate the orange tree to the 2024 Intertek Freeport team.

Description: The Caleb Brett Lake Charles, Louisiana office celebrated Earth Day 2024 by planting 4 trees – lemon, lime, fig, and peach – at the office in hopes of them producing fruits that they can eventually share with all the employees and anyone that may want some.

Description: Employees in the Intertek Caleb Brett Deer Park, Texas branch observed Earth Day 2024 by working to beautify a field nearby their office by clearing out any trash. 

Description: Caleb Brett colleagues in Channelview, Texas celebrated Earth Day by sprucing up their office exterior by rebuilding and replenishing a planter box and inside they added recycling bins in the kitchen and inspection room to start recycling waste. Employees also volunteered to pick up trash on a neighboring roadside and around the office grounds. 

Description: During a recent meeting at the Arlington Heights, Illinois lab, a group from the U.S. Human Resources team went to Melas Park and spent around two hours cleaning up throughout the large park that includes baseball and soccer fields, a 1.83-acre dog park, and a one-mile long walking trail around the park.

Thank you to everyone who shared your stories and pictures, every effort helps in our mission to build back ever better.