“…Use of waste materials as adsorbents can reduce waste disposal costs, as well as reduce adsorbent costs (Bhatnagar and Sillanpää, 2010). Accordingly, a variety of waste materials have been explored as potential activated carbon adsorbents, including sewage sludge (Aksu and Yerner, 1998;Chen et al, 2005;Kojima et al, 2002;Rio et al, 2005;Thawornchaisit and Pakulanon, 2007), tires (Bhatnagar and Sillanpää, 2010), newspaper (Hamabe et al, 1998;Shimada et al, 1999), cork (Olivella et al, 2011), ion-exchange resin (Long et al, 2008), seaweed (Ghimire et al, 2007) and various agricultural wastes Morus plant (Gopalswami et al, 2010), jatropha husk (Namasivayam et al, 2007), coir pith (Kadirvelu and Namasivayam, 2000;Namasivayam and Kavitha, 2002;Namasivayam and Sangeetha, 2006;Namasivayam et al, 2001;Parab et al, 2006), maize waste (El-Geundi, 1991;ElizaldeGonzález et al, 2006), rice husk (Ahmaruzzaman and Sharma, 2005;Akhtar et al, 2006;Chandrasekhar and Pramada, 2006;Kannan and Sundaram, 2001;Kaur and Prasad, 2001;Kumar and Bandyopadhyay, 2006;Lakshmi et al, 2009;Mahvi et al, 2004;Malik, 2003;McKay et al, 1999;Mohanty et al, 2006;Srinivasan et al, 1988;Wang and Lin, 2008;Zafar et al, 2007), wheat bran (Bulut and Baysal, 2006;…”