“…Biomass from marine macroalgae and seagrasses can be obtained in large quantities at a low price, provided that their harvesting is sustainable and does not affect the ecosystem balance in coastal areas. Different species of marine algae have been used to remove various metal ions, colorants (dyes) and other pollutants from water (Sheng et al, 2007;Bhatnagar et al, 2012;Aytas et al, 2014;Navarro et al, 2014;Rathod et al, 2014;Vijayaraghavan et al, 2015;Jerold and Sivasubramanian, 2016;Ungureanu et al, 2016;Mokhtar et al, 2017;Vigneshpriya et al, 2017;Arumugam et al, 2018;Kishore Kumar et al, 2018;Silva et al, 2019;Bouzikri et al, 2020; Coração et al, 2020;Fabre et al, 2020;Safarik et al, 2020a,b;Shobier et al, 2020; Table 1). Also, waste macroalgae biomass obtained after selected industrial processes can be employed for the same purposes (Safarik et al, 2018;Santos et al, 2018).…”