“…Adsorption technique has received much attention because it allows the use of many materials that are environmental friendly and have low production cost (Cegłowski and Schroeder, 2015). Adsorption studies on the natural polysaccharide, adsorbents based on starch and other low cost materials have become a focus of study in the removal of heavy metals such as wheat shells (Basci et al, 2003), sweet potato starch (Fang et al, 2004), wheat bran (Farajzadeh and Monji, 2004), starch and chitin (Crini, 2005), tea leaves (Ahluwalia and Goyal, 2005), pulping wastes (Celik and Demirbas, 2005), wood based adsorbent (Argun and Dursun, 2006), okra (Hashem, 2007), succinylated starch (Awokoya and Moronkola, 2012), chitosan (Monier et al, 2012), corn starches (Awokoya and Moronkola, 2013), jujube , porous starch (Ma et al, 2015), potato starch (Feizi and Jalali, 2015) e.t.c. Some of the advantages of using these polysaccharide materials for wastewater treatment include simple technique, requires little processing, good adsorption capacity, selective adsorption of heavy metal ions, low cost, free availability and easy regeneration.…”