Of poverty and plastic: scavenging and scrap trading entrepreneurs in India's urban informal economy
On the economics of plastic scrap industry and scavengers; a study conducted in Delhi
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| Zusammenfassung: | On the economics of plastic scrap industry and scavengers; a study conducted in Delhi |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliography: (p. [254]-268) and index |
| Beschreibung: | xix, 280 S. Ill., Kt. 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780198060864 0198060866 |
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| adam_text | Titel: Of poverty and plastic
Autor: Gill, Kaveri
Jahr: 2010
Contents
List of Photographs vii
List of Tables, Figures, and Boxes viii
Foreword xi
Acknowledgements xv
List of Abbreviations xviii
1. Introduction 1
2. The City of Delhi 38
3. Waste as Informal Sector Work: Measuring Income Poverty, 52
Inequality, and Deprivation
4. Interlinked Contracts and Social Power: Patronage and 83
Exploitation in the Waste Recovery Market
5. Exploitation or Entrepreneurship? Scrap Traders and the 123
Economics of Survival in the Informal Economy
6. From Pigs and Pollution to Plastics and Progress: 154
Recasting Low Caste Status through an Informal Market
7. Bourgeois Environmentalism , the State, the Judiciary, 190
and the Urban Poor: The Political Mobilization of a
Scheduled Caste Market
8. Conclusion 227
Appendix: Plastics 244
Bibliography 252
Photographs
{between pp. 109-10)
1. A scavenger recovering a wet mix of waste from an
open access, concrete municipal dustbin in Punjabi Bagh
2. Itinerant buyers weighing and selling dry, segregated
household waste to a habadi dealer in Jwalapuri
3. Labour sorting recyclable plastic waste by item and
generic category of polymer in Mundka
4. A labourer segregating recyclable Pepsi cups and other
consumable or packaging waste into generic categories
of polymer at a plastic godown in Mundka
5. Finely sorted category of discarded Gillette placards in
final readiness for the recycling process in Mundka
6. A supplier s premises, specializing in the recycling of
jerry cans, as seen from the road in Mundka
7. The premises of a commission agent or adthi in Mundka
8. Recyclable plastic waste from across Delhi and India
being offloaded in Mundka
Tables, Figures, and Boxes
Tables
1.1 Percentage Share in Population and Average Consumer 6
Expenditure per Capita per Day
1.2 Percentage Distribution of Expenditure Classes by Informal 8
Work Status, Social Identity, and Education, 2004—2005
2.1 Status of Industrial Units in Delhi 43
2.2 State Institutions Involved in the Polythene Bag Banning 48
Bill/Industrial Relocation Order
3.1 Legal Status and Landownership of Selected Slums 55
3.2 Basic Infrastructure Provision in Selected Slums 55
3.3 Characteristics of the Survey Population 58
3.4 Occupational Ranking on Mean Monthly Income 59
3.5 Occupational Ranking on Mean Hourly Income 60
3.6 Measuring Intra-group Income Inequality 61
3.7 Components and Indicators of the Composite Measure 66
of Deprivation
3.8 Scoring on Components of the Composite Measure 68
of Deprivation
3.9 Occupational Performance on the Deprivation Index 70
3.10 Human Development Index and Human Poverty Index, 72
1981/1991
Tables, Figures, and Boxes ix
4.1 Summary Differences between Pickers and Itinerant Buyers 87
in terms of Gender and Daily Work Characteristics
4.2 A Sample of Items Sold by Itinerant Buyers and 88
Waste Pickers
4.3 Relative Scale of Kabadi and Panni Dealer Shops 89
4.4 Caste Identity of Waste Workers 93
4.5 Framework Used to Assess Nature of Exchange 95
Relationship
4.6 Salient Differences in the Exchange Relationships of 104
Itinerant Buyers, Pickers, and Dealers
4.7 Summary of the Economic and Social Basis of the 110
Exchange Relationship
4.8 Factors Determining the Relative Bargaining Power of 112
Parties to the Exchange Relationship
5.1 Intermediary Categories of Traders along the Plastic 128
Recycling Value Chain
5.2 Total Number of Traders and Labour Employed 130
in Mundka
5.3 Range of Items and Prices in Mundka Market 132
5.4 Average Number of Sellers, Buyers, and the Price 136
Decision-Making Process
5.5 Location of Buying and Selling Parties for Traders 139
in Mundka Market
5.6 Margins by Trader Type in Mundka Market 142
5.7 Margins, Costs, and Incomes of Traders as Calculated 144
on Kharid
5.8 Assessing Capital and Incomes along the Plastic 147
Recycling Value Chain
6.1 Caste Identity of Labour in the Plastic Scrap Trade 157
6.2 Kinship Ties of Labour in the Plastic Scrap Trade 158
A.1 Types of Recyclable Plastic Polymers 244
A.2 Strands of Action Suggested by the National Plastics 249
Waste Management Task Force Report
x Tables, Figures, and Boxes
Figures
1.1 Material Plow in the Urban Solid Waste System: 11
The Contribution of the Informal Sector to Solid Waste
Management (SWM) in Developing Countries
1.2 Generic Structure of the Informal Recovery and 23
Recycling Chain in Developing Countries
5.1 Direction of Sale of Plastic Waste between Categories 130
of Traders
A.1 Technical Options for Recycling Plastics 245
Boxes
6.1 The Encroachment Act, Disruption of Waste Work, 179
and Caste Corporatism
A.1 PVC Toxitity and Waste Management Options 247
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