“…Many treatment and disposal strategies for reducing the environmental hazard arising from the generation of waste resins (some of which are radioactive waste) have been considered [ 3 , 4 , 5 ]. One of the ways of dealing with spent ion exchangers is their thermal decomposition, including incineration and pyrolysis, whereby the volume of the ion exchanger wastes is reduced and they acquire a more stable form for deposition in the environment [ 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 ]. Pyrolysis of ion-exchange resins yields porous carbon beads [ 13 , 14 ] usable for desulfurization of fuels [ 15 ], hydrogen storage [ 16 ], CO 2 capture [ 17 , 18 ], sorption of heavy metal ions [ 19 ], benzene [ 20 ] and also in catalysis [ 21 ].…”