“…Owing to its high surface area, chemical and mechanical stability, macro/microporosity, and active sorption sites (especially silanol groups) together with its low cost and abundance, sepiolite is currently widely used in a wide variety of industrial and environmental applications as a industrial adsorbent including solid waste and wastewater treatment (Maqueda et al 1995;Öztürk and Kavak 2004;Sabah and Çelik 2006;Yıldız and Gür 2007;Guerra et al 2010;Bektaş et al 2011;Wang et al 2013), carrier for chemicals, moisture control, household uses (use in ashtrays to avoid smoke odor, control of liquid leakages and odors in dustbins, odor removal in refrigerators) and in retention of micropollutants such as heavy metal cations, dyes, ammonium and phosphate (Çelik et al 2001;Balcı and Dincel 2002;Sabah and Celik 2002;Uğurlu and Karaoğlu 2011), pesticides (Gonzales-Pradas et al 1987;Gonzales-Pradas et al 1999;Casal et al 2001), and others. High-capacity values were also observed for heavy metals (Hellios-Rybicka 1985;Munoz et al 1996;Brigatti et al 1996;Brigatti et al 2000;Kara et al 2003;Lazarević et al 2007;Kocaoba 2009;Doğan et al 2009;Lazarević et al 2011;Dönmez et al 2015;) and cationic or anionic dyes (Aznar et al 1992;Özcan et al 2004;Doğan et al 2006;Doğan et al 2007;Alkan et al 2007;Santos and Boaventura, 2008;Uğurlu 2009;Öngen et al 2012;Qiu et al 2013;Han et al 2014;Tekin et al 2015) removal using...…”