Poster: 'Ability of bacteria isolated from oil-contaminated soil to utilize lindane under aerobic and anaerobic conditions'

Lindane is an organochlorine compound that belongs to the group of hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH). HCH is a group of compounds consisting of cyclohexane having one chlorine and one hydrogen attached to each carbon, their common chemical formula is C6H6Cl6 (Zdravkoski et al., 2004). The estimated amount of lindane used globally for agricultural purposes, livestock, forestry, human health in the period from 1950 to 2000 is about 600,000 tons. Since the 1990s, research has begun on possible ways to remove lindane. In addition to more traditional methods such as storage or incineration, catalysts have been discovered that enable faster photodegradation such as TiO2 or mixtures of TiO2 with other metal oxides like CeO2 (Radić et al., 2022). Meanwhile, the microbial breakdown of lindane contamination is becoming more and more recognized as an economical and environmentally friendly alternative to traditional treatment methods (Bhatt et al, 2019).