Water is the source of life and is the basic condition of human survival. However, the severe water contamination and insufficient water source are nowadays two thorny problems. Industrial effluents are contaminated with highly toxic, non-biodegradble and cancerogenic heavy metals, which are generated by industries such as electroplating, mineral processing, galvanization plants, paints formulation, porcelain enameling, nonferrous metal and vegetable fat producing industries (Meena et al., 2005). Due to the discharge of large amounts of metal-contaminated wastewater, the electroplating industry is one of the most hazardous among the chemical-intensive industries (Pereira et al., 2010). If not carefully managed, however, wastewater may produce both shortand long-term effects on human health and the ecological system. In many developing countries there are deadly consequences associated with exposure to contaminated water, as many developing countries have increasing population densities, increasingly scarce water resources, and no water treatment utilities. Therefore, there are huge challenges all over the world regarding the handling of waste water for a sustainable future. The processes of dissolution, transport and immobilization of heavy metal ions are very important in environmental science and technology. Many industrial processes involve solubilisation of heavy metal ions to aqueous solutions which then are released into the environment via wastewater; as heavy metal ions persist in the environment, an effective protection strategy requires the ions to be sequestered from the wastewater (Nestle, 2002). Several treatment technologies for wastewater treatment, including chemical precipitation, electrodeposition, ion exchange, membrane separation and adsorption, have been developed (Diz & Novak, 1998; Webster et al., 1998; Feng et al., 2000; Mohan & Chander, 2006; Chartrand & Bunce, 2003; Santos et al., 2004; Gibert et al., 2005; Johnson & Hallberg, 2005; Wattena et al., 2005; Wei et al., 2005; Kalin et al., 2006; Rios et al., 2008), although adsorption has been the preferred method for heavy metal removal, because it is considered to be a particularly effective technique if it takes in consideration the use of suitable, cheap, and environmentally friendly sorbent materials. Heavy metal removal from electroplating wastewater have been investigated by several researchers (Algara et al., 2005; Sousa et al., 2009). Adsorption is usually quite a complex process, generally involving much more than