Wastewater treatment using attached growth microbial biofilms on coconut fiber: A short review

Abstract

Treatment of wastewater is one of the major challenges in developing countries. Improper management of wastewater may cause serious health and environmental problems. There are many wastewater treatment methods in the world and these techniques need expertise knowledge, infrastructure facilities and high maintenance cost. In the context of developing countries, having low cost and environmental friendly wastewater treatment methods may be useful for the day today uses. Therefore, studying on the plausibility of wastewater treatment using attached growth microbial biofilms on coconut fiber may evidence for the fact that coconut fiber biofilm treatment systems could be used in the above need, as a reliable method.