Investigation on Reducing Chromium Quantity in Chromium Containing Wastes of Leather Industry Using Oyster Mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus)

Abstract

Content: In the leather industry, the shaved wastes after the wet blue phase, which are exposed by the shaving process, are one of the substances that cause environmental pollution for the leather industry. Most of the time, these wastes can be buried and may cause serious environmental pollution. In this study, wet blue shaved wastes to be mineralized to chromium and so prevented oxidise to Cr (VI) by using oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus) .Wet blue shaved wastes were mixed with 0.5%, 1%, 1.5% and 2% doses into the growth medium. After the oyster mushroom growth, the consuming of chromium from the growth media and chromium content that uptaken by the mushroom were investigated with in House method / ICP-MS. Take-Away: -Oyster mushroom degrade the waste -Oyster mushroom can uptake chromium -Oyster mushroom can grow medium where contens chromiu