Alam, Md Zahangir
(2016)
Environmental Biotechnology for Sustainable Development.
In: 4th International Conference on Biotechnology Engineering 2016 (ICBioE 2016), 25th-27th July 2016, Kuala Lumpur.
(Unpublished)
Abstract
A huge quantity of domestic and industrial waste is generated annually in Malaysia as the country is moving forward to the industrial development. The major waste streams are mainly
household wastewaters managed by the Indah Water Konsortium (IWK) is a national sewerage company and oil palm industrial (OPI) waste at private sector with their own treatment facilities. Most of the treatment plants are based on conventional methods of treatment and management
which lead to the high cost, time consuming, environmental pollutions and limiting sustainable
future. Current focus of research and development to the efficient waste management is not only
the treatment processes but also turning waste into valuable products which could be a complete and potential solution with generation of revenue and zero waste emission at the point source for sustainable development. Therefore the global attention on this issue implicating that an
environmental friendly system must be proposed by converting the cheap and abundant renewable resources into valued bio-products. The paper highlights the overview of the recent research on resource recovery from domestic and industrial wastes especially biocatalysts and
bioenergies through green technology approach. The topics include the sources and characteristics of selected waste i.e. IWK sludge and OPI waste, and proposed alternative and
potential solution for effective management through recovery of bio-products. A case study on pilot scale set up at IIUM for the cellulase production from IWK sludge is also highlighted
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