Sustainable wastewater treatment is one of the foremost challenges of twenty first century.
With the ever increasing levels of industrial toxic sludge disposal to water bodies, finding …

This critical review discusses the potential use of agricultural waste based biosorbents
(AWBs) for sequestering heavy metals in terms of their adsorption capacities, binding …

Toxic metals can be present in the environment, causing negative effects on the ecosystem
and human health. Although several technologies have been used for decontamination …

Inadequately treated or untreated wastewater greatly contribute to the release of unwanted
toxic contaminants into water bodies. Some of these contaminants are persistent and …

Biosorption is a variant of sorption techniques in which the adsorbent is a material of
biological origin. It has become an economic and ecological alternative for the treatment of …

Heavy metal contamination affects lives with concomitant environmental pollution, and
seaweed has emerged as a remedy with the ability to save the ecosystem, due to its eco …

The removal of heavy metals from aqueous effluents so as to avoid their toxic,
bioaccumulation and biomagnification effects to humans and environment is usually …

Cu (II) ions discharged from various industrial effluents, cause water pollution. Recently
adsorption using various low-cost green adsorbents in continuous mode was practised for …

Pistachio shell powder supported nano-zerovalent copper (ZVC@ PS) material prepared by
borohydride reduction was characterized using SEM, FTIR, XRD, TGA/DTA, BET, and XPS …

The paper summarizes literature data on using crushed pistachio shells (Pistacia vera L.) as
sorption materials to remove ions of various metals, dyes, and antibiotics from aqueous …