With the world’s population on the rise, organizations will require more resources to fulfill societal needs entailing more waste generation and environmental pollution. However, pollution is not caused by waste but by excess materials exhibiting multiple potential uses we call redundant resources which end discarded as pollutant waste due to our society’s inability to adequately reallocate them. In this context, society and government organizations’ environmental concerns and regulations represent conflicting demands that affecting an organization’s competitiveness and legitimacy. These external organizations can thereby exert control over those entities assessed as polluters. Hence, the latter not only become captive but dependent on the former. As a result, an organization’s operability, that is, the extent to which it can keep its systems functional, can be compromised. We call this condition the Resource Redundancy Dependence (RRD). This conceptual paper provides a broad and practical understanding of wastemanagement’s organizational implications while proposing an alternative -yet unexplored- path blending resource dependence and resource based-view frameworks.