The food processing industry has generated a huge quantity and variety of food products, provided employment to a large number of people and uplifted their economic status. At the same time it generated a large quantity of biodegradable waste, causing the environmental pollution. The pollution has not only scientific but also sociological, economic and demographic aspects, adversely affecting the human beings. Chemical treatments of the effluents remove the suspended solids and the dissolved organic compounds remains there. These effluents when discarded in the environment lead to secondary pollution and cause environmental destruction. The problems caused by these pollutants is becoming increasingly serious. Bioremediation is a promising alternative to the physicochemical approaches. It is eco friendly, low cost and an efficient method to reduce the polluting factors from the waste generated by various food related industries. It is apparent that waste from food industry is a rich source of several nutrients which has a great potential for value addition and disposing it off is a sheer wastage of natural resources. It can be converted into a number of useful products by suitable technologies especially by the deployment of microorganisms. The type of waste from food industry, their pollution load and composition, their utilization for the production of value added products by microbial technology etc. are the aspects that needs to be addressed for the proper remediation of food processing waste. The present article is addressed on the various aspects of microbial assisted remediation of food processing industries’ waste.