The industrialization, urbanization, advancement in technologies and increasing population has been a major cause of release of various types of pollutants in the environment. Taking into consideration heavy metals pollution and organic solid waste generation, an attempt has been made to remove heavy metals from industrial effluents using various organic solid wastes by biosorption process. Total 14 organic wastes of plant and animal origin were selected for the remediation of effluents collected from different industries. The adsorption isotherm models was used to study the mechanism of...

Heavy metal pollutants are being released in rivers, soils, and the atmosphere, due to developing agribusiness and metallurgy industries, as well as fertilizers, and pesticides. They are non-biodegradable and can accumulate in living systems, contaminating the food chain. Physical and chemical heavy metal cleanup solutions are expensive and harmful to the surrounding ecology. Due to the proven capacity of microbes, especially bacteria, to sequester and convert pollutants, microbial bioremediation has emerged as a viable technique for reducing heavy metals in the environment. Microbes have...

Butea monosperma (Lamk.) Taub. is one such medicinal plant commonly known as Palas (Flame of the forest) belonging to the family Fabaceae. It is distributed throughout India, except arid parts (Sharma et al., 2000). Butea monosperma (Lamk.) Taub. has various healing effects which are seen in treatment of many diseases. The information of Butea monosperma (Lamk.) Taub. is very meagre and hence it was thought of interest to undertake the present work to study antidiabetic, antimicrobial and antioxidant property of different plant parts of Butea monosperma (Lamk.) Taub.Anatomical features were...