Commercially available polymer, the copolymer of maleic acid and acrylic acid (PMA), was used for the efficient removal of Sn 2+ from aqueous solutions by complexation-ultrafiltration. The rejection of Sn 2+ reached up to 99.3% at pH 5.0 and P/M (the mass ratio of polymer to metal ions) 5. The study was the first to examine the kinetics of complexation reactions of PMA with Sn 2+. It takes 35 min for Sn 2+ to get the complexation equilibrium, and the reaction kinetics can be described by a pseudo-first-order equation. The stability of PMA-Sn complex in the shear field was studied for the first time. The critical rotating speeds at which the PMA-Sn complex began to dissociate were 1960, 1680, 1520 rpm at pH values 5.0, 4.0, 3.0, respectively, and the corresponding critical shear rates (γ c) were calculated as 2.68 × 10 5 , 2.15 × 10 5 and 1.67 × 10 5 s-1 , respectively. Furthermore, shear induced dissociation and ultrafiltration (SIDU) were effectively applied to recover Sn 2+ and regenerate PMA. The SIDU is a promising technology for recovering tin and regenerating PMA. Compared with the traditional dissociation by acidification, SIDU avoids the use of acid and alkali, and it is in line with the idea of green chemistry.