“Single Use Plastic is the most toxic pollutant in the plastic waste stream, to protect the ecosystem and public health it is an urgent need to Ban SUP Immediately”. Activists and experts urged the government to initiate the necessary steps to ban single-use plastic in Bangladesh.

To address this need and to observe, International Plastic Bag Free Day 2021.‟Environment and Social Development Organization-ESDO, in collaboration with Plastic Solution Fund – PSF organized a virtual session to launch a network on “Bangladesh Network for Banning Single-Use Plastic” and invited the different organizations to join this group to work united against plastic pollution.

Different Organizations like; Prokiti O Jibon Foundation, Green Savers, Center for Environmental and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS), Mati, Center for Environment, Human Rights & Development forum-CEHRDF attended the webinar and agreed to join the group. They exchanged their views on the SUP waste management situation in Bangladesh and they were enthusiastic to work for a sustainable environment.