Adwaita is a cultural anthropology PhD candidate working with plastic recyclers, municipal officials, and informal waste workers in Mumbai. He examines how waste recyclers translate embodied knowledge of materials, toxicity, and urban infrastructure into expertise that influences the city’s physical management of plastics. He attends to intersectional injustices faced by marginalized laborers as sustainability and waste-governance agendas unfold, using ethnographic and visual methods. Additionally, he maintains a comparative project on how bureaucracies around solid-waste in Indian megacities reshape labor rights and environmental governance. Before graduate study, Adwaita worked with Mumbai-based civil-society organizations on housing rights, cultural activism, and open-data initiatives.