“…Alginate and derived adsorbents are frequently used in the treatment of water and wastewater contaminated by toxic heavy metals. For example, alginate beads have been widely studied for Pb(II) adsorption [8,10,52,55,72], in the treatment of Cu(II) and Cd(II) ions [11,52,53,73], alginate modified for efficient sorption of Cd(II), Cu(II), Pb(II), Zn(II), Ni(II) and Hg(II) [73][74][75], in the trapping of Hg(II), Cd(II), Pb(II) and Zn(II) [12], for U(VI) [76], As(V) [77,78], and Cr(VI) [79]. Composites based on chitosan and alginate play a central role in increasing the adsorption capacity.…”