- ✓Tires removed from neighborhoods
- ✓Illegal dumping sites remediated
- ✓Waste diverted from landfills
- ✓Reduction in environmental hazards
An OTX International Initiative
Green Your Neighborhood.
Turning community waste into community resilience.
OTX InternationalEst. 2021
Executive Overview
From waste liability to community asset.
The Green Your Neighborhood Initiative is a community-driven environmental resilience program operated by OTX International. It transforms waste liabilities into economic, environmental, and community assets.
The program addresses one of the most visible and persistent challenges facing communities across the United States: the accumulation of waste tires and other difficult-to-manage waste streams that create environmental hazards, public health risks, fire hazards, and neighborhood blight.
Rather than simply collecting and disposing of waste, Green Your Neighborhood creates a circular-economy model that removes waste, develops local workforce skills, supports environmental stewardship, and establishes the foundation for community resilience infrastructure — through partnerships with municipalities, tribal nations, community organizations, schools, and industry.
The Problem
Millions of waste tires. Every year.
Across the United States, millions of waste tires are generated annually. Improperly stored or illegally dumped, they create cascading harms — and underserved and rural communities are disproportionately affected because affordable, sustainable pathways often don’t exist.
- ·Mosquito breeding grounds and public health concerns
- ·Significant fire risks
- ·Valuable land and community space occupied
- ·Cleanup costs that fall on local governments
- ·Degraded neighborhood appearance and quality of life
Our Solution
Five pillars, one circular model.
- Pillar 01
Community Cleanup
Organized collection and removal of waste tires and other priority waste streams from neighborhoods, parks, tribal lands, and public spaces.
- Pillar 02
Environmental Education
Public-awareness programs that promote responsible waste management, recycling, and environmental stewardship.
- Pillar 03
Workforce Development
Hands-on training that exposes participants to advanced manufacturing, recycling technologies, logistics, and environmental management careers.
- Pillar 04
Circular Economy Infrastructure
Deployment of innovative technologies that recover value from waste streams while reducing environmental burden.
- Pillar 05
Community Resilience
Exploring how recovered materials and energy systems contribute to local resilience, emergency preparedness, and long-term sustainability.
Why this matters
Not a cleanup program. A platform.
Environmental challenges can become opportunities for innovation, education, and economic participation. Green Your Neighborhood is the platform that proves it — in the neighborhoods that need it most.
- 01Cleaner communities
- 02Stronger local economies
- 03Workforce development
- 04Environmental stewardship
- 05Community pride
- 06Long-term resilience
Program Outcomes
Donor support drives measurable impact.
- ✓Volunteers engaged
- ✓Community organizations supported
- ✓Neighborhood improvement projects completed
- ✓Public education events conducted
- ✓Participants trained
- ✓Workforce certifications supported
- ✓Career pathways created
- ✓STEM and technical education engagement
- ✓Local procurement opportunities
- ✓Small-business participation
- ✓Community investment
- ✓New resilience-infrastructure pilots
Why Donor Support Matters
Every dollar funds a visible improvement.
Green Your Neighborhood is designed to serve communities that often lack the resources to independently address persistent environmental challenges. Your contribution funds the work that makes the difference visible.
A Scalable Model
Built local. Designed to scale national.
The long-term vision is a network of community-led resilience projects that combine environmental remediation with economic opportunity and local capacity-building — through partnerships with:
- Local governments
- Tribal nations
- Schools and universities
- Civic organizations
- Environmental groups
- Industry partners
- Community foundations
Opportunity for Partnership
Cleaner neighborhoods, stronger partners.
We’re seeking philanthropic partners, foundations, corporations, and individual donors who share our commitment to practical action and collaborative partnerships.
- Community resilience
- Environmental stewardship
- Workforce development
- Innovation
- Sustainable economic opportunity
OTX International
OTX is a public-benefit organization focused on strengthening democracies through community-level resilience, education, innovation, and collaborative problem-solving. OTX develops and supports initiatives that create lasting positive impact while empowering local communities to address emerging challenges and opportunities. Green Your Neighborhood is one of OTX’s flagship community-resilience initiatives.
Visit OTXDivergent Recycling
Divergent Recycling is an advanced recycling and resource-recovery company focused on transforming end-of-life tires and other difficult waste streams into valuable commodities — including energy products, recovered carbon black, steel, and critical industrial feedstocks. As the technical operating partner for Green Your Neighborhood, Divergent provides the expertise, equipment, and operational capability to safely process collected materials while maximizing environmental and economic value from waste that would otherwise remain a community burden.
Visit DivergentHelp us green the next neighborhood.
Every contribution directly supports visible, measurable improvements in the communities we work with.