Bring your own bag, plant a tree: Bangladesh shoppers grow 1 lakh (100,000) trees across 42 districts

Aarong, working with BRAC and Mission Green Bangladesh, has planted more than 1 lakh (100,000) trees across 42 districts of Bangladesh — funded entirely by shoppers who stopped using paper bags. Between September 2025 and March 2026 the 'Bring Your Own Bag' campaign cut paper-bag use by 46.8 lakh (4.68 million) bags, saving roughly 6,000 trees, and the Tk2.9 crore (29 million taka, about $240,000) raised from bag sales went straight into planting. Through BRAC's Ultra-Poor Graduation programme, 95,382 fruit, timber and medicinal saplings reached 40,001 households in 210 sub-districts — trees meant to feed families, earn income and green the places people live. With Mission Green Bangladesh, the partners are also planting dense Miyawaki forests of native species.

SDG 15 · Life on land — Mechanism: institutional program