Revolutionizing Industrial Wastewater Treatment: Harnessing the Power of Purely Biological Methods

In recent years, the textile industry has experienced significant economic growth and growing consumer demand. The textile industry is one of the biggest consumers of water and producers of wastewater, which unfortunately makes it one of the main contributors to environmental pollution worldwide. The main objective of the present study is to explore the capacity of newly isolated actinobacterial strains in the treatment of industrial textile wastewater, the results indicated that the isolates S30, S98, and S150 appeared to have the highest ability to decolorize Congo red dye reaching 96.35%, 90.63%, and 97.12% respectively after 48h. whereas, tyrosinase and azoreductase were the main activities who intervene in the dye degradation. Dye degradation metabolites were identified using FTIR and GC-MS analysis. Through this investigation we can confirm that the aforementioned strains are good candidate for treatment of highly colored textile wastewater.