The performance of the polystyrene anion exchangers Lewatit MonoPlus M 500, Lewatit MonoPlus M 600, Lewatit MonoPlus MP 500, Lewatit MonoPlus MP 64, and Lewatit MP 62 as well as Amberlyst A 21 was investigated for their further application in purification of wastewaters containing nitrilotris(methylenephosphonic acid) (NTMP) and heavy metal ions. The comparison involved evaluation of the sorption/desorption behavior of NTMP complexes of Cd(II), Cu(II), and Zn(II) on the resins with different basicity of functional groups. The batch method, in which a fixed amount of anion exchanger was contacted with the sample solution for increasing periods of time and the amount of metal ion remaining in the solution measured as a function of the elapsed time, was used to obtain information on the kinetics of species formed in the presence of added complexing agent. The effects of pH, metal(II) ion and ligand concentration, and their molar ratio on the sorption as well as type of functional groups of the anion exchangers used were determined. The sorption data were fitted to various models to obtain certain constants related to the sorption phenomena. The effect of the regeneration solution was also investigated.