Heavy metal contamination of our ecosystem is one of the major environmental challenges facing our world today. Fungi have the ability to take out heavy metals from soils. Studies were conducted to determine the effectiveness of using Pleurotus ostreatus for the removal of copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), manganese (Mn) and iron (Fe) from soils of metal scrap sites. P. ostreatus was cultivated on soil samples using sawdust as a substrate. With soils of metal scrap sites, Fe recorded the highest level (10.740 __ampersandsignndash; 68.500 mg/kg) and the least accumulated metal was Cu with a range of __ampersandsignlt;0.02__ampersandsignndash; 26.97 mg/kg. In both harvests, Fe was the most absorbed metal followed by Mn, Zn and Cu. In the first harvest, Fe absorption by P. ostreatus was 2.193 __ampersandsignndash; 3.233 mg/kg and that of Mn, 0.486 __ampersandsignndash; 0.580 mg/kg. Zn and Cu concentrations were in the range of 0.276 __ampersandsignndash; 0.539 mg/kg and 0.0200 __ampersandsignndash; 0.0290 mg/kg respectively. With the second harvest, levels of Fe and Mn in P. ostreatus ranged from 2.33 __ampersandsignndash; 3.79 mg/kg and 0.499 __ampersandsignndash; 0.713 mg/kg respectively. Zn concentration was 0.236 __ampersandsignndash; 0.565 mg/kg and Cu recorded 0.0165 __ampersandsignndash; 0.0820 mg/kg. With the control soil, concentrations of heavy metals in P. ostreatus were 0.0110 __ampersandsignndash; 2.027 mg/kg in first and 0.0110 __ampersandsignndash; 1.670 mg/kg in second harvest. P. ostreatus had a good potential for removing Fe, Mn, Zn and Cu from soils of metal scrap sites which contained these heavy metals in high concentrations above the WHO and USEPA standards. Pleurotus ostreatus can be used to amend heavy metal polluted sites.