COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW ON PHYTOREMEDIATION OF INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENTS

Now a days, most of the industrial bodies outlet numerous quantity of effluents that
directly harms the environment by increasing pollution and reducing the availability
of pure water. For controlling certain environmental aspects, government bodies
have taken several steps to control the effluent outlet from industry by applying the
technique named as phytoremediation that receives attention as most cost effective
treatment and also act as eco-friendly that uses natural sources such as plants, algae to
decrease contaminants from sediments, soil and wastewater. It also plays a major role
in removing heavy metals from wastewater using various parts of plants like flower,
root and shoot system, this method is commonly known as Rhizofiltration. Different
parts of plants has the ability to remove 60% of toxic metals when gets contacted
with effluents. Aquatic plants like algae are also infused in effluent treatment using
capsulation methods. Rather than this some conventional treatment methods are also
used such as ion exchange, adsorption, reverse osmosis, electrochemical treatment,
chemical precipitation, etc. This paper mainly overviews the water pollution problems
and describe how plants play a major role in phytoremediation by focusing on the
plans that are utilised for controlling the effluent outlet from industrial bodies.