Subject(s): Environmentalism -- Scheduled caste market -- Plastics industry and trade -- Plastic scrap -- Economic aspects -- Delhi in India, waste as informal sector work- measuring income poverty, inequality and deprivation, interlinked contracts and social power- patronage and exploitations in waste recovery market, exploitation or entrepreneurship- scrap traders and economics of survival in informal economy, from pigs and pollution to plastics and progress- recasting low caste status through an informal market, bourgeois environmentalism, the state, the judiciary and urban poor- political mobilization of a scheduled caste market