An Emphasis on Xenobiotic Degradation in Environmental Clean up

Abstract

Setting up of new industries or expansion of existing industrial establishments resulted in the disposal of industrial effluents, which discharge untreated effluents causing air, water, soil and soil solid waste pollution. These disposed materials have high persistence capacities and also can change in to toxic recalcitrant up on combining with other eco-materials or manmade products. Remediation is the only way to tackle these so called xenobiotic compounds and to reduce the hazards caused by them. Even though, several practices have been implemented for degrading these recalcitrants, bioremediation step is proved to show the significa t impact on them. Giving a brief note on types of xenobionts and their impact on the environment, this study attempts to highlight on different xenobiotic degradation methods like bacterial bioremediation, phycoremediation, phytoremediation, photoremediation etc.