Water pollution by heavy metal is a serious environmental problem that affects the ecosystem and living beings, hence, calls for serious global attention, in the area of remediation. Adsorption is one of the best technologies for the removal of heavy metals and attention has been focused on agricultural waste materials. Agricultural waste materials are emerging as low-cost adsorbents for these pollutants from aqueous solutions. The application of Nano technology has provided efficient adsorbents for the removal of heavy metals from aqueous solution because of the unique properties they display such as large surface area, enhanced active sites and the functional groups that are present on their surface. This research explored the potentials in grape fruit peels (Citrus paradise) in the raw, activated carbon /zinc oxide Nano composite forms(G(raw), G(NC) for the removal of copper from aqueous solutions. Batch adsorption studies were carried out to determine the adsorption capacities of the different adsorbents and the influence of varying conditions such as (temperature of the system, time of contact and concentration of the metal ion) were studied. From the experimental data, different kinetic and equilibrium models were sampled and the results showed that the sorption process best fitted into the pseudo second order kinetic model than the pseudo first order model with high regression values (0.999 &0.998 for G(raw) and G(NC) respectively), indicating a chemisorption process. The experimental data also showed best fit to the intra particle diffusion model against the liquid film model for G(NC)indicating pore penetration mechanism while G(raw) yielded more to liquid film diffusion model indicating surface penetration of the adsorbate onto the adsorbent. The thermodynamic studies conducted in this study revealed the sorption process is chemisorption in nature, spontaneous and with increased randomness or disorderliness of the system. From the obtained results, it is possible to affirm that all adsorbents used are good alternatives to the synthetic materials, with adsorption capacities being greater with G(NC).