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Purpose     The purpose of this paper is to contribute original evidence about the conditions for formal and informal contracts for commodities and labour in the waste economy of a South Indian town.     Design/methodology/approach     Field research was exploratory, based on snowball sampling and urban traversing. The analysis follows capital and labour in the sub-circuits of capital generating waste in production, distribution, consumption, the production of labour and the reproduction of society.     Findings     Regardless of legal regulation, which is selectively enforced, formal contracts are limited to active inspection regimes; direct transactions with or within the state; and long-distance transactions. Formal labour contracts are least incomplete for state employment, and for relatively scarce skilled labour in the private sector.     Research limitations/implications     The research design does not permit quantified generalisations.     Practical implications     Waste management technology evaluations neglect the social costs of displacing a large informal labour force.     Social implications     While slowly dissolving occupational barriers of untouchability, the waste economy is a low-status labour absorber of last resort, exit from which is extremely difficult.     Originality/value     The first systematic exploration of formal and informal contracts in an Indian small-town waste economy.

Formality and informality in an Indian urban waste economy