Bioremediation With Cheese Whey

Robert Rynk

BioCycle February 2004, Vol. 45, No. 2, p. 26

A bioremediation project in Emeryville, California is using cheese whey, the liquid by-product from cheese making, to treat groundwater that has been contaminated with chromium – hexavalent chromium to be specific. The goal of the project is to reduce the groundwater’s chromium concentrations to levels that meet drinking water standards.

 

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