Bunkurd Corporation
once based on Coruscant, this company operated several centuries prior to the Battle of Endor. They engineered a bacterium that could help break down the huge amount of waste coming out of Imperial City each day. The bacterium would eat the sludge and grime, converting it to more biodegradable by-products. The bacterium was responsible for a twenty-percent improvement in Coruscant's sewage problems. However, if the bacterium was consumed by humans, it would make them feel as if they had food poisoning. This became known as Bunkurd Sewer Disorder. Bunkurd later developed a way to contain the bacterium in a self-contained treatment system known as the Bunkurd Reclamation System.