ESDO’s zero waste mandates include advocating for the issuance of regulations to include zero waste principles into waste management systems by 2022, stop the use of single use plastic for packaging in Bangladesh by 2022, and develop zero waste management rules and guidelines by 2025. ESDO successfully advocated for policy regulations to ban polythene shopping bag in Bangladesh in 2002, and included microbeads (small, solid, manufactured plastic particles that are less than 5mm and don’t degrade or dissolve in water; they work as bulking agents and to prolong shelf life) in the list of ‘substances which must not form the composition of cosmetics products’, managed by the Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI), govt. body to regulate product standards in Bangladesh, in 2018. ESDO’s current advocacy target is centered around restricting the use of single use plastics by 2022.