It is proposed to purify gas emissions of industrial enterprises by the adsorption method. As a sorption material, power industry waste is used — the cuttings for chemical treatment of water of water reclamation at Kazan CHPP-1, which is formed during coagulation and liming of natural water. The chemical composition of the cuttings, its technological characteristics, the isotherm of adsorption of hydrogen sulphide cuttings, its sorption capacity and water absorption are determined. The optimum characteristics of a batch adsorber with a fixed cuttings layer are calculated. The calculation of the economic and ecological effect of the modernization of the technological scheme for cleaning gas emissions from the hydrogen sulphide line produced by the thiocol OJSC "Kazan Plant of Synthetic Rubber" is given.