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Aerobic Treatment of Handmade Paper Industrial Effluents by White Rot Fungi
| Shweta Kulshreshtha1*, Nupur Mathur2 and Pradeep Bhatnagar3 | |
| 1Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India | |
| 2Department of Zoology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India | |
| 3International College for Girls, Mansarovar, Jaipur, India | |
| Corresponding Author : | Shweta Kulshreshtha Amity Institute of Biotechnology Amity University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, A-200 Vaishali Nagar, Jaipur-302021, India Tel: +91-9460553136 Email: shweta_kulshreshtha@rediffmail.com |
| Received April 05, 2012; Accepted May 07, 2012; Published May 09, 2012 | |
| Citation: Kulshreshtha S, Mathur N, Bhatnagar P (2012) Aerobic Treatment of Handmade Paper Industrial Effluents by White Rot Fungi. J Bioremed Biodeg 3:151. doi: 10.4172/2155-6199.1000151 | |
| Copyright: © 2012 Kulshreshtha S, et al. This is an open-a ccess article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | |
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Abstract
Modernization of handmade paper industries has led to increase in production capacity for fulfilling demand. This also leads to the use of chemicals and dyes to make attractive and colourful papers. These industries recycle white and coloured cotton rags procured from textile industries. After processing and making paper, these industries discharge large amount of effluent in nearby water sources and deteriorate quality of water. Therefore, it is an urgent need to treat waste water in order to reduce the effect on the human beings as well as on the environment. The present study deals with physicochemical and genotoxicological analysis of Large Scale Handmade Paper industrial (LS-HMP) and Small Scale Handmade Paper industrial (SS-HMP) effluents before and after treating them with White Rot Fungi (WRF) in nutrient amended and non-amended condition. SS-HMP and LS-HMP were found to possess basic pH i.e. 7.54 and 8 respectively. These industrial effluents were found to possess colour revealed by 11293.3 (SS-HMP) and 11880 (LS-HMP) colour units and high COD revealed by 1132.6mg/l (SS-HMP) and 12371.7mg/l (LS-HMP), on initial day which reduced significantly to the safe discharge limits by white rot fungi. Similarly, basepair and frameshift mutagenicity were reduced significantly on treatment. Among all WRF, P. chrysosporium was found to be equally effective in both nutrient amended and non-amended condition in reducing all parameters of SS-HMP and LS-HMP effluent. Thus, P. chrysosporium can be used for the treatment of handmade paper industrial effluent without nutrient supplementation
