Industrial and Pharmaceutical Microbiology

Treatment of Wastes in Industry

Industrial Wastes, unwanted materials, result inevitably from industrial activities in the same wayas they also do in domestic ones. If allowed to accumulate on the ground, or if dumped indiscriminately into rivers and other bodies of water, unacceptable environmental problems would result. Governments the world over usually institute legislation which regulates the handling of wastes, including those resulting from industry. In the US the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is the regulating agency.The activities of industrial microorganisms usually occur in large volumes of water;the resulting wastes are therefore transported in aqueous medium.