期刊名称：The Open Environmental Pollution & Toxicology Journal
电子版ISSN：1876-3979
出版年度：2012
卷号：3
期号：1
页码：55-64
DOI：10.2174/1876397901203010055
出版社：Bentham open
摘要：
Recent advances have been recorded in the tanning industry with
biotechnology in principle playing a very important role through
related applied research. This review paper demonstrates that a
previously tagged tanning sector as the most hazardous can be resolved
through adoption of cleaner technologies, waste management and remedial
measures that can be put in place. Pollution is depicted stepwise
along the leather processing phases with a selected xenobiotic and
contaminants identified such as Sodium chlorides, Chromium, Sulphates,
Chlorinated phenolics etc. As an interventionist strategy, biological
tools using novel techniques of investigation are shown including
the aquatic ecosystems. Remedial methods using known threshold in
an identified tannery in Kenya is used to comprehend how to scale
down the pollutants eventually. However it is recognised that though
phytoremediation potential exist, it will require a combination
of several other recently developed methods to provide a much firmer
basis of controlling pollution loads related to the tanning Industry.
