Bioremediation of Industrial wastes through Vermicomposting

Solid waste management has become one of the challenging problems worldwide due to rapidly increasing population, intensive agriculture and industrialization. Vermicomposting is being adopted worldwide as an innovative ecotechnology for conversion of various types of organic wastes into vermicompost.Present work therefore envisaged bioremediation of the biosludges and effluents of three industries (Beverage, Distillery and Paper mill) situated in District Amritsar of Punjab, India with vermicomposting. These industries dump their solid wastes on land or in landfills and release their effluents in natural water bodies after preliminary treatment which causes heavy pollution of soil and water. Therefore, it was planned to improve quality of the solid and liquid wastes of these industries before their disposal in natural ecosystems.