There remained Not in My Backyard （NIMBY） movements against waste incineration plants across China in 2016. The primary cause of such movements has much to do with the current technical mode of communicating risks of incineration，with its subsequent effects driving the forming of a multi-participant waste management pattern. From a systematic perspective，therefore，waste pollution，risks of incineration and NIMBY movements constitute a chain of waste crises whose parts link with one another and whose removal requires breaking individual parts by identifying their relations from a social point of view. First，the risks of incineration should be communicated in a democratic，no longer technical，mode. Second，NIMBY movements should be dealt with by leveraging their positive effects rather than preventing their negative ones. Third and last，waste pollution should be alleviated by means of multi-center governance in place of single-center management. The synergy of efforts in these three areas will ultimately turn technology-oriented waste treatment and power-oriented waste management into society-or iented waste governance.