Even now in smaller Chinese towns/villages it is largely burned. In large cities the practice is banned b/c pollution though.

If you're a nomad I'd think your waste management strategy does not need to be very complex.

Or what I refer to generally has "hygiene factors" -- removal of human and animal wastes, trash, smoke, crime. Various systemic negative consequences of activity.

Entropy.

The US military still does. Sometimes burning new equipment never used.

Farms in the first world still do this.