Brand Audit has been playing a significant part in ESDO’s campaign against single-use plastic pollution. Since 2018, ESDO has been conducting a Brand Audit and trying to reveal the top plastic polluters of Bangladesh. This year ESDO has conducted a Brand Audit in Dhaka and Mymensingh City and to reveal the truth of the top plastic polluters, ESDO launched the report on 21st September 2021 through the online platform Zoom.

This brand audit report holds the top polluting companies accountable for fueling the plastic pollution crisis in Bangladesh. This year 19,963 pieces of plastic waste with a total weight of 132 kg were collected and majorly 11 International and 33 local parent companies producing near about 200 brands including Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestlé, Unilever, Perfetti Van Melle, Bombay Sweets and Co. Ltd, Pran RFL Ltd, Square Foods and Beverage Ltd, Akij Group, Meghna Group of Industries etc. were identified.

Among the collected waste we found 78.04642 kg of recyclable waste & 52.0526 kg of non-recyclable waste which underlines the fact that recycling can not be the solution to the plastic pollution crisis.