Patent ID: 7201847

Claim:
A method of treating wastewater comprising: a) providing a source containing a biomass in at least one of a paper, pulp, and a human waste water source; b) adding a supply of simple sugar to the wastewater source and adding at least one of the bacteria selected from the group consisting of clostridium cellulolyticum, clostridium celluloverans, arthrobacteria species, streptomyces species and proteus mirabilis to the wastewater source; c) adding a supply of white rot fungus into the wastewater source in the presence of the simple sugar wherein the simple sugar accelerates the production of phenoloxidases from the white rot fungus which break down at least a portion of the biomass; and d) as a result of the breaking down of the biomass, thereby decreasing at least one of a phosphorous amount, an amount of color in the wastewater, an odor of the wastewater, an ammonia amount in the wastewater, an amount of volume by weight solids suspended in the wastewater, and an amount of sludge that can not be effectively separated from the wastewater sludge.