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Treatment of Xenobiotics

Xenobiotics are synthetic compounds not normally found in nature. They can be broadly classified as pesticides, detergents & plastics. Degradation of xenobiotics pose a challenge to the mankind. Although microbes help in bioremediation of xenobiotics, the process is slow. The plastics industry produces about 70 billion pounds of plastics per year, about half of which ends up in landfills. The difficulty in degrading these along with the shortage of landfill space is posing new challenges for the environmental engineer. Enzymes to degrade several commonly used insecticides like organophosphates, carbaryl, many synthetic pyrethroid and endosulfan have been isolated. The entry of microbes in the field of polymer science has opened up new areas of bioremediation research of platics.

Konark biosciences offers the following bioremediation solutions of Xenobiotics:

• Degradation of recalcitrant organics such as pesticides/ herbicides/fungicides
• Treatment of pesticide residue in soil and ground water