STUDY ON MICROBIAL ENZYMES DEGRADING LIGNOCELLULOSIC FOOD WASTE AND IN BIOREMEDIATION OF POLLUTANTS Abstract The lignocellulosic food waste from agro-industries (sugarcane baggage, apple pomace, rice bran) are discarded or used as fodder. The pomaces and baggage can contain moisture as high as, up to 75%. Added up with high chemical oxygen demand and biological oxygen demand are prone to causing major environmental and health problems. Microbial enzymes (Trichoderma reesei, Aspergillus niger, Viscozyme L, Celluclast 1.5L, cellobiohydrolases, bacterial amylase, endoglucanases and b-glucosidase) working in synergy can hydrolyse the wastes at a faster rate than traditional methods producing invertase that can be used as industrial sweetener and also as a biofuel or in production of chemicals for biorefineries. Bioremediation is a technique of using microbial enzymes to recycle wastes or degrade pollutants with the help of biotechnology, such that they can be reused by...