Adsorption of Textile Dyes by Plant Biomass-a Review

Water resources are increasingly getting contaminated day by day due to the ignorance lent to the wastewater management.Most of the textile dyes or effluents are a major reason for the pollution of water resources.Although many methods are adopted to treat these textile effluents,but there is a dire need to come up with an eco-friendly,cost effective method for the removal of contaminants from the effluents. Recent researches have shown that plant biomass can be used for this purpose. Different plant parts can be put to use for the removal of textile dyes from wastewater and make the water cleaner for various uses.This is an economical and environment friendly alternative to various other methods that use large amount of chemicals to treat waste water.Different plants like water hyacinth,nirgudi plant,hydrilla verticillata,sunflowers,etc have been researched upon for the adsorption of textile dyes from textile wastewater.