“…Attention has been given to the use of agricultural waste in the remediation of heavy metals (Ahmed, Attar, & Parande, ; Al‐Homaidan, Alabdullatif, Al‐Hazzani, Al‐Ghanayem, & Alabbad, ; Al‐Othman, Ali, & Naushad, ; Asuquo, Martin, & Nzerem, ; Gao et al, ; Garg, Kaur, Jawa, Sud, & Garg, ; Göksungur, Uren, & Güvenc, ; Gupta, Rastogi, & Nayak, ; Hidaya & Mangkoedihardjo, ; Jain et al, 2009; Kaewsarn & Yu, ; Krishnani et al, ; Kumar & Bandyopadhyay, ; Low, Lee, & Liew, ; Mahmoud & Fawzy, ; Mahvi, ; Marshall & Wartelle, ; Rizzuti, Ellis, & Cosme, ; Rizzuti et al, ; Salman, Athar, Farooq, Nazir, & Nazir, ; Sud, Garima Mahajan, & Kaur, ; Suresh et al, ; Tang, Lee, Low, & Zainal, ; Wartelle & Marshall, ). In general, agricultural waste materials have a high affinity for heavy metals due to their various functional groups.…”