The industrialization, urbanization, advancement in technologies and increasing population has been a major cause of release of various types of pollutants in the environment. Taking into consideration heavy metals pollution and organic solid waste generation, an attempt has been made to remove heavy metals from industrial effluents using various organic solid wastes by biosorption process. Total 14 organic wastes of plant and animal origin were selected for the remediation of effluents collected from different industries. The adsorption isotherm models was used to study the mechanism of...