Extraction of Bioactive Compounds from Religious Bio-Waste

Abstract

There is a continuous flow of trash from temple devotion to the time of mourning for the loss of a loved one. Compost, incense, pigments, and other by-products are made from these floral biowastes, or they are disposed of as pollutants in open yards. Because of this, no one focused on converting these wastes into therapeutic value-added compounds before they were transformed. Temple floral trash of Tagetes erecta and Rosa indica were used to evaluate pharmacological properties in the present study. Antimicrobial activity was evaluated on Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria using crude extracts from both floral biowastes. As a result, except for anthraquinones and steroids, both flowers' waste contained alkaloids, flavonoids, tannin, saponin, phenol, and carbohydrate. As a result, the methanolic extracts of both flower wastes showed effective antibacterial activity against Bacillus subtilis, Staphylococcus aureus, and Escherichia coli compared to standard antibiotics. The findings of this study show that floral biowaste may be a viable source for the extraction of pharmaceutically relevant phytochemical compounds that might be used in the formulation of potentially novel drugs.