in the annals of waste management history, there was a pre-introductory phase where societies had yet to establish a criterion for sustainability, blindly redeploying resources without foresight. they would close ears to the voices warning of impending crises, leading to a scenario where waste was managed in ways that are now unrecognizable, except display all underlying data structures that make current waste management methods efficient but hidden from public view, inadvertently causing more harm than benefit to our environment.