• Worked in the Environmental and Water Resources Division.
• Use of either naturally occurring or deliberately introduced microorganisms to consume and break down environmental pollutants, in order to clean a polluted site
5. Plastic
• Idenolla sakaiensis – Breaks down the plastic
by using two enzymes to hydrolyze poly
[ethylene terepthalate] , or PET.
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8. Rubber
• Pseudomonas sp. - most common bacterium
employed in pollutant degradation.
• isolated from sugar industry effluent reduced
the BOD, COD, toxicity of industrial effluents
of pharmaceutical, sugar and dairy industries
9. • Anthrobactor sp. - effectively be used for the
treatment of effluents from rubber processing
industry.
• good biodegrading organism.
• studied for its squalene degradation
• Escherichia coli, Thiobacillus spp.,Recinicium
bicolour are used in Tire Rubber Recycling and
Bioremediation.
10. Petroleum
• Marinobacter sedimentarum & M. flavimaris – To
measure oil attenuation in hypersaline pond
water and soil microcosms.
• Rhodococcus rubber - Petroleum hydrocarbon
analysis.
• Pseudomonas Putida - Utilize oil as subtrate
• Geobacteracece - able to biodegrade
• petrol hydrocarbons with reduction of Fe (III).