BIOREMEDIATION OF TEXTILE DYES AND EFFLUENT BY Amorphophallus paeoniifolius ENZYME EXTRACT: AS AN ECO-FRIENDLY ALTERNATIVE

Abstract

The textile industry is one of the largest water-consuming industries and its effluent contains many pollutants such as dyes, degradable organic matter, detergents, stabilizers, inorganic salts and heavy metals. Indian Population is involved in textile industries, it releases 3500 different dyes. These dyes directly or indirectly are discharged into the environment, which infects the groundwater posing a hazard to the health and socio-economic life of the people. In India, most textile manufacturers discharge untreated effluent into water bodies without treatment, contaminating groundwater and endangering people's health and socioeconomic well-being. To shield the environment from these various pollutants and to re-process the used water, the effluents need to be treated mandatorily. The present study reviews the usage of various biological methods and their advantages for textile industry wastewater treatment and summarizes not only the direct application of plant sources but also the use of enzyme from plant source to treat textile wastewater and dyes. Industrial wastewater, which often contains colors, has contaminated water supplies worldwide. Therefore, the treatment of textile effluents is essential. Enzymes from plants have been stated to play a significant role in textile wastewater treatment applications. The present study deals with the extraction of crude enzyme and PPO enzyme from A. paeoniifolius corm and treatment of textile industry effluents and textile dye Red CE, Yellow CE, Blue CE, N. Blue CE dye with the help of extracted enzyme.