RETRACTED: Removal of Phosphate from Aqueous Solution with Modified Sawdust

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor.The article is a duplicate of a paper that has already been published in Desalination, 275(1), 231-236, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2011.03.004; The Environmentalist, 31(3), 200-207, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10669-011-9313-1; and Desalination and Water Treatment, 44(1-3), 306-313, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19443994.2012.691740. One of the conditions of submission of a paper for publication is that authors declare explicitly that the paper is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. As such this article represents a severe abuse of the scientific publishing system. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter and apologies are offered to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process.