“…Bioadsorption is considered a viable Cr (VI) and Hg (II) removal technique, because it removes large percentages of agroindustrial residual origin adsorbents that do not require care or maintenance, are not expensive, easy to process and highly available [25, 26, 27, 28, 29,]. Among the materials widely studied and with excellent results for the removal of heavy metals, are: corn huskTejada-Tovar et al, [30]; Zheng and Meng, [31], pine sawdust [32], bagasse of palm and yam [33], cassava and lemon peel [34], cane bagasse [35], walnut shell [36], coffee leaf [37], orange and cocoa shells [38,39], Mangifera sawdust [40],tea residue [41], Cayota urens waste [42], tusa corn stalks [43], , plantain peel [24], among others.…”