I have been working on removing heavy metals from contaminated environment ( soil or water) and food stuff by food industries or agricultural waste materials due to remedy them.
So I have been used adsorbent having low cost which were abundant in nature that required little processing . Most of them are by product or waste materilas from another industry ( mostly food stuff).
Such adsorbents are seaweed, orange peel,
peanut skins, bamboo-pulp, dyed sawdust, algae,
clay, zeolite, sawdust, flyash, maize or corn cob,
modified cotton and wool, tea waste, dyed jute,
groundnut shells8,9, coffee, green tea, date tree
leaves, jambhool, potato husk, ashoka leaf powder,
syzygium cumini, Jute and sun hemp, apple
pomace, almond husk, prosopis spicegera, ratrani
leaf powder, jute stick, cashew nut shells, cassia
siamea, coconut husk, feathers, hairs, bagasse
etc.9
.Agricultural materials particularly those
containing cellulose shows potential metal
biosorption capacity.