Popular dogma are both a guide and a hindrance. Two dogma are reviewed in this essay. The first offers a hierarchy of solid waste management as a guide to municipal policy makers in their management of household waste, but is mistaken by its inclusion of valuable resources as waste. The second represents organizations as environmental bad actors, but is mistaken by its disregard of individuals who peruse environmental protection.
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