Abstract:
Effluent samples were collected at different intervals from match industries located at Hayat Abad Industrial Estate. These samples were analyzed for their physico-chemical properties and selected toxic metals suspected to be released by match industries. The effluents of all match industries contained high concentration than the permissible level of chromium (VI), iron and manganese ranging from 11.00 +/- 0.00- 38.91 +/- 0.05 ppm, 11.76 +/-0.10-21.70 +/- .08 and 0.06 +/-0.01-2.28 +/-0.09 respectively. Other heavy metals like copper, lead, zinc and nickel were founded to be below detection limit.
