 Over the past decades, organic and organic hybrid polymers have been applied in different fields, including the adsorption of pollutants from wastewater and solid-state separations. In this review, firstly, these compounds are classified. These compounds are prepared by Solgel method, self-assembly process, mesopores, assembling of nano-building blocks, layered or core-shell compounds, and as interpenetrating networks and hierarchically structures. Lastly, the adsorption characteristics of heavy metals of these materials, including different kinds of functional groups, selectivity of them for heavy metals, effective pH, and synthesis conditions on adsorption capacity, are studied. This article was authored by Babak Sami, Chil Hong Cheng, and Jiao Ning Wu.