MICROBIAL TREATMENT OF TEXTILE INDUSTRY EFFLUENT: AN ECOFRIENDLY RECOURSE.

The basic aesthetic interest of human beings is of them resorting to colored materials. This has led to the exploration of dyes for coloring different materials which are used in day to day life. Dyeing and printing of clothes is a concept predating to as far as history can take us. This was a door to door unorganized approach using few colors produced from natural sources. But after the development of synthetic dyes, textile processing has developed to a large industrial scale in last six to eight decades. Over and above textiles, dyes have been used by leather, paper, plastic and even food industries which also lend their hand in contribution of environmental pollution. The use of these dyes has led to severe environmental, terrestrial and aquatic pollution as the large volume of effluent released by these units contained unfixed dyes and strongly acidic or basic chemicals. Physical and chemical effluent treatment, is a costly process, that has been made compulsory by almost all government agencies around the globe. This also resorts to different chemical based coagulating agents, which ultimately increase the output cost of the final product Microbial treatment of this effluent has proved to be a successful, eco-friendly and the ultimate approach. This review article has been aimed to compile different work in this aspect for the better understanding of the subject.