“…Since adsorption is not a destructive technique, some materials release the nutrient after the treatment, thus attending the demands of a circular economy (Kasprzyk and Gajewska, 2019). Recent research has proposed a variety of adsorbents including layered chalcogenide (Li et al, 2019), nano-porous calcined palygorskite embedded with La(OH) 3 (Kong et al, 2018), acid-activated akadama clay (a Japanese volcanic soil) (Wang et al, 2018), magnetically recoverable magnetite/lanthanum hydroxide (Fang et al, 2018), hydrothermally synthesized lanthanum carbonate nanorods (Koh et al, 2020), thermally activated dolomite (Ivanets et al, 2015(Ivanets et al, , 2016, zirconium/magnesium modified bentonite (Lin et al, 2020), etc. Clay minerals have gained interest because they are abundant in nature and are environmentally compatible. Montmorillonites, like other smectites, have permanent negative charges generated by the isomorphic substitutions of Si 4þ by Al 3þ in the tetrahedral sheets, and of Al 3þ by Mg 2þ in the octahedrons.…”