Our Success

Our History of Achievements

January 22, 2023
January 22, 2023

Plastic Free Campus

  • Objectives of this project are to build second-generation leadership, to aware the young generation of the toxicity of Plastic, to prepare young students to refuse single-use plastic
  • Through this project, ESDO & partners are planning to include ten schools in five divisions in Bangladesh; namely Dhaka, Rajshahi, Khulna, Sylhet, and Rangpur.
  • ESDO has covered four divisions, seven schools 350 students
  • These students are now working to build their campus plastic-free along with their community
  • They follow zero-waste lifestyle on their campus and daily life.
September 12, 2020
Zero Waste Community ESDO
September 12, 2020

Zero Waste Community in Bangladesh

  • 145 back yard twin-pits have been set up in the backyard of houses in Betgari for composting units.
  • 450 people registered to adopt zero waste lifestyle from 3 different location.
  • 60 jobs created for waste collectors.
  • 1 Organic Farming Plot in Betgari, Rangpur.
  • 2 Rooftop gardens with organic fertilizer.
  • Environmental education camp to adopt Zero Waste Lifestyle.
  • Set up 2 Biogas Plant in the rural communities.
  • Successfully made compost from earth composter.
June 4 & 5, 2022
June 4 & 5, 2022

Single Use Plastic Free National Fair

  • Entrepreneurs with ESDO displayed alternatives to single-use plastic at the country’s first plastic-free fair at National Level.
  • More than 20 enterpreneurs who sell eco-friendly products, showcased their products in this national plastic-free fair
  • No plastic packaging, products were bought and sell in this fair, everything showcased in this fair was eco-friendly. Even the food wrappers that were sold in the fair was made of papers
  • Through this fair ESDO showed that plastic-free lifestyle is possible
October 24, 2013
October 24, 2013

Mercury Free Dentistry in Bangladesh

  • Bangladesh Dental Society declared a ban on mercury use in the treatment of pregnant women, nursing mother and children by June, 2018.
  • The BDS announced support for the phase out of dental amalgam use in Bangladesh by 2018.
  • Bangladesh Army Medical and Dental Core phased out dental amalgam use in their treatment.
  • BDS-ESDO Signed MOU to Eliminate Mercury Amalgam by 2018.
  • Use of mercury dental amalgam reduced up to 80% in Bangladesh.
January 11, 2011
January 11, 2011

E-Waste

  • ESDO conducted surveys in 2009-2010 to assess e-waste from six product categories: televisions, computers, mobile phones, CFL bulbs, medical equipment, and dental equipment.
  • In 2011, ESDO initiated the "E-waste Education for the Next Generation" project.
  • Two major E-waste management awareness workshops were organized by ESDO in 2012.
  • In 2013, ESDO met with representatives from Japanese company JTEC to address the e-waste issue in Bangladesh and discuss policy implementation.
  • In 2014, Bangladesh's first e-waste documentary aired on a private TV channel. ESDO conducted press briefings, launched a website, and organized a workshop on February 7, 2015.
February 2, 2008
ban lead paint rally
February 2, 2008

Reduced Lead in Paint

  • Since 2008 ESDO's continuing awareness-raising activities to policy advocacy on the ‘Ban Lead Paint issue in Bangladesh.
  • According to the national report of ESDO on “Lead in Paint- 2013”; leading paint brands in Bangladesh with had largely stopped producing paints containing more than 600 ppm lead.
  • Due to ESDO's continuous advocacy, In 2018, BSTI finalized a standard for the paint manufacturing industry setting the limit of lead content for household paint at a max of 90 ppm which make Bangladesh the only country with a mandatory standard on Lead Paint in South – East Asia.
April 22, 2002
Pollutant Free Vehicle
April 22, 2002

Pollutant Free Vehicles

  • From 1995-2002 ESDO raised mass awareness and intercepted policy with a nationwide campaign, “We want 2-stroke vehicle-free streets”. The study conducted by ESDO found that carbon monoxide, methane, nitrous oxide and lead were emitted from 2-stroke vehicles, with serious environmental and health consequences.
  • The campaign began in 1995 through mass awareness raising and progressed with advocacy and policy lobbying which saw a 2-stroke ban in Dhaka and major cities. In 2002 the Government officially banned all 2-stroke vehicles and introduced CNG as the common form of energy.
January 12, 1990
Ant Polythene movement
January 12, 1990

Ban Plastic Bags

  • ESDO was the first organization in 1990 to conduct comprehensive research into the adverse effects of the production and use of polythene in Bangladesh. 

  • Under the guidance and direction of ESDO’s Secretary General, Hossain Shahriar, ESDO organized a nation-wide anti-polythene campaign in 1992, which involved the media and support by numerous organizations and public leaders.

  • In 2000, the Ministry of Environment and Forest selected ESDO as the principle task force representative in pushing a complete ban of polythene bags.