“…Among these treatment methods, adsorption is an effective method for the removal of metals, provided that low-cost materials are utilized as adsorbents (Bhattacharyya and Gupta, 2008;O'Connell et al, 2008). Materials employed in previous works as adsorbents for lead removal include grape stalk waste, rice husk, sawdust, activated carbon, different types of biomass, wheat bran, natural and modified minerals such as zeolite, bentonite and kaolinite (Martínez et al, 2006;Wong et al, 2003;Taty-Costodes et al, 2003;Abdel-Halim et al, 2003;Zulkali et al, 2006;Lo et al, 1999;Gupta and Rastogi, 2008;Ö zer, 2007;Naseem and Tahir, 2001;Korkut et al, 2010;Gupta and Bhattacharyya, 2005).…”