Abstract
As a result of agriculture, urban and industrial activities, wastes and residues are increasing and are causing environmental pollution. Current cassava starch industry processing, which is discharging voluminous amounts of solid waste and wastewater, is reappeared in this review. Potential pollutions of cassava starch processing (CSP) wastes including two major problems: high loading of organic compound and cyanide content in the exceeding limit are also indicated. The important role of microorganism reflected in the improvement of natural deficient properties of cassava products shows capacity of microorganisms in detoxification of cyanide as well as utilization of raw cassava starchas a substrate for growth and conversion. The information is collected as an evidence to confirm the feasibility of microorganism, particularly filamentous fungi, in the development of microbial treatment system for the reclaimation of the CSP wastes.
