Influence of common dye-bath additives,namely sodium chloride,ammonium sulphate,urea,acetic acid and citric acid,on the reductive decolouration of Direct Green 1 dye in the presence of Fe0 was investigated.Organic acids improved dye reduction by augmenting Fe0 corrosion,with acetic acid performing better than citric acid.NaCl enhanced the reduction rate by its ‘salting out’ effect on the bulk solution and by Cl-anion-mediated pitting corrosion of iron surface.(NH4)2SO4 induced ‘salting out’ effect accompanied by enhanced iron corrosion by SO42-anion and buffering effect of NH4+ improved the reduction rates.However,at 2 g/L (NH4)2SO4 concentration,complexating of SO42-with iron oxides decreased Fe0 reactivity.Urea severely compromised the reduction reaction,onus to its chaotropic and ‘salting in’ effect in solution,and due to it masking the Fe0 surface.Decolouration obeyed biphasic reduction kinetics (R2 ＞ 0.993 in all the cases) exhibiting an initial rapid phase,when more than 95％ dye reduction was observed,preceding a tedious phase.Maximum rapid phase reduction rate of 0.955/min was observed at pH 2 in the co-presence of all dye-bath constituents.The developed biphasic model reckoned the influence of each dye-bath additive on decolouration and simulated well with the experimental data obtained at pH 2.