YOUNG PEOPLE’S AWARENESS OF CIRCULAR ECONOMY: THE CASE WITH ECONOMIC STUDENTS AT CAN THO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

Tóm tắt

Awareness precedes action. One must become aware of something before attending to it (Graziano & Webb, 2015), and then to actions. Similarly, a full awareness about the circular economy (CE) could help the implementation of CE to an economy more efficient. However, up to now in Vietnam, CE is still a new concept, and there have not been many studies investigating the public’s awareness of CE, especially among young people. This study, using descriptive statistics with 226 survey samples of economics students at Can Tho University of Technology, will describe the current awareness of young people about CE. The results show that young people's awareness of CE is still quite low. In addition, green purchase (one of the identifying signs of CE) among young people are not yet popular and depend heavily on price factors. These results may provide good indicators to competence agencies in attempts to raise awareness and responsibility of young people about CE.