“…Organic dyes, as introduced by painting, textile, electroplating, leather or paper industrial wastewater, are emerging as important aqueous pollutants, posing threat to the health of aquatic organisms and human being due to their solubility, toxicity, possible carcinogenic effects as well as interference of photosynthesis through absorption to incident light (Adeyemo et al, 2012;Katheresan et al, 2018;Kaur et al, 2019;Lellis et al, 2019). For example, methylene blue (MB), a common cationic dye, was found to cause eye irritation, vomiting, mental disorder, and has even been identified as a mutagen and carcinogen (Yao et al, 2010;Zhao et al, 2015;Xu et al, 2016). Common treatment techniques for dye wastewater include biological treatment, adsorption, coagulation, advanced oxidation, membrane filtration and photocatalysis (Gupta, 2009;Yagub et al, 2014;Ahmad et al, 2015).…”