European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

ALTERNATIVE REMEDY FOR REDUCTION OF BYSSINOTICS, A LUNG DISEASE, AMONG WORKERS IN TEXTILE MILLS AROUND COIMBATORE

E. Preetha* and Dr. P. Saravanakumari

ABSTRACT

Human activity affects the environment with social, technological and economic development. Consumption of various natural resources has increased the level of pollutants such as air, soil, water pollution etc., which is increasing at an exponential rate, thus endangering our country’s rich ecology and environment. The textile industry occupies a unique place in our country. Cotton wastes used for the study were directly procured from textile mills in and around Coimbatore and Erode districts. These cotton dusts has no resale value, less degrading capacity, barrier in absorption of rainwater by soil when dumped and emission of high amount carbon as pollutant when burned. The People are not aware of Health & safety is due to the workers are uneducated and management have not given importance due to promote Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) in Textile industry thus becomes a barriers in implementing OHS. Composting was done using Effective microorganism under aerobic condition and the compost was used as alternative of soil. Pot studies were done and the results were noted for physical parameter such as seed germination %, root length, shoot length etc., Obtained results clearly give a solution for the solid waste management(SWM) in textile industry as well as cheap and nutrient rich soil to cultivate plants organically.

Keywords: pollutants, Cotton wastes, resale value, Composting, OHS, Effective microorganism, seed germination, solid waste management.