Wastewater pollution from rubber pr

Wastewater pollution from rubber processing industries has been on the increase in Africa and Asia as a result of the
increasing number of rubber producing factories due to the presence of virgin forests with large number of mature rubber trees. Rubber producing factories are one of the agro-industries that producelarge quantities of wastewater. The practice of indiscriminate dis-charge of large volumes of wastewater from processing factoriesto soil and watercourses poses lot of danger to the environmentand man. In Nigeria most of the rubber industries discharge theirwastes into rivers/streams because they are rarely equipped with