“…Industrial sludge could be used for deriving adsorbents, which can be used for treatment of wastewater. Tannery sludge (Reddy et al, 2008;Geethakarthi and Phanikumar, 2011), paper mill sludge (Khalili et al, 2000;Khalili et al, 2002), poultry litter (Guo et al, 2010), agriculture byproduct (Ng et al, 2010), sewage sludge ash (Ferreras et al, 2010;Pan et al, 2003;Liu et al, 2010;Yu et al, 2006) and water treatment plant sludge (Kayranli, 2011;Zhou et al, 2010) derived adsorbent can be used for treatment of industrial wastewater as well as domestic sewage. Textile mill sludge also has potential to be used as adsorbent for removal of dyes from dye wastewater.…”