Air pollution modelling of the Calabrian pine forests withered by the Yatagan thermal power plant, Turkey

To investigate enhancement of crude oil biodegradation by adding microbes to the contaminated soil, chicken manure was put into oil-polluted soil (at 10% v/w pollution level). In the soil amended with chicken manure, 72.5% of the crude oil was degraded, whereas only 52.7% of same oil was degraded in the unamended soil. The remedied soil contains 1.4 × 10⁶ CFU g⁻¹ crude oil-degrading bacteria, and 1.1 × 10⁸ CFU g⁻¹ aerobic heterotrophs. The crude oil-utilising bacteria were identified as species of Pseudomonas, Proteus, Enterobacter, Bacillus and Micrococcus. Chicken manure is therefore promising for crude oil pollution remediation.