Littered Waste generated from trees generally contains dried leaves and floral parts. For this particular research, this waste was collected from VIT University, Vellore. The disposal of this waste is a big problem as these are produced daily and not easily compostable so, the major interest of our work deals with using this waste as resource. The collected wastes are ground and used for removal of hexavalent chromium ion from 250ml of water sample containing 50 ppm of chromium (stock water sample prepared using K2Cr2O7). The change in concentration with respect to time is checked by AAS (atomic absorption spectroscopy). The efficiency of Cr(VI) removal is also checked at different pH and plotted with respect to time and it is found 85.8% at acidic pH. According to results obtained, this can be used for low cost treatment of chromium in affected water bodies.
