Kitchen waste impose precarious effects to the human health as well as to environment. The principal determinants of kitchen waste generation include rapid increase in human population and urbanization. The highly biodegradable kitchen waste must be carefully handled and disposed -off to reduce the risk of pollution. Biodegradation of kitchen waste is usually carried out by various types of microorganisms including fungi. Fungi can produce extracellular enzymes that can degrade industrial, agricultura l and municipal solid waste. The present study has emphasized the isolation a nd screening of indigenous fungal species from kitchen waste. Furthermore, optimum conditions to enhance biodegradation of kitchen waste was ob served through physiochemical proces ses. The kitchen waste samples were collected to isolate biodegrading fungi directly from the dustbins of University of Agriculture Faisalabad. Fungal isolation was performed by inoculating the sample on selective media and were further screened by Congo r ed plat e method. Six isolates of fungi were identified at specie level , while different parameters were optimized like acid pretreatment, thermos-acid pretreatment, optimization of temperature, pH and preparation of fungal consortia for enhanced biodegrada tion of kitchen waste. Out of six fungal isolates four were identified as Trichoderma harzianum Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus flavus and Penicillium expansum , exhibiting
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