ABSTRACT
The disposal of distillery waste into the environment without adequate treatment results in soil, ground, and surface water pollution leading to adverse effects on aquatic life and local vegetation is a serious worldwide concern. The treatment of distillery effluents is necessary to protect the ecosystem and enable subsequent recycling of the treated effluent for irrigation purposes or reuse within the distilleries processes. Therefore, effective remediation approaches are necessary. A large array of conventional biological and physicochemical treatment processes has been applied widely for dealing with the pollution created by discharged effluent from distilleries; however, the shortcomings of these methods include instable decolorization efficiency, operational difficulty, and occasional formation of hazardous by-products. Hence, there is an urgent need to address the limitations of the existing technologies and to develop a treatment process to provide a complete solution for the treatment and safe disposal of distillery wastewater. This chapter therefore presents the concluding remarks for management of distillery waste for sustainable development of the environment.
