Understanding Public Environmental Awareness and Attitudes toward Circular Economy Transition in Saudi Arabia

Circular economy (CE) has been globally acknowledged as a national sustainable development (SD) strategy to confront resource shortages and environmental contamination challenges. Although public behaviors lifestyles play an essential role in achieving sustainability, developing countries, few studies explored the of awareness, attitudes, on CE transition. Thus, it is necessary elicit opinion understand their awareness attitude regarding determine obstacles implementation approaches overcoming them. This study thus focuses understanding attitudes transition Saudi Arabia. Data were collected through questionnaire survey distributed 402 residents Dammam Metropolitan Area. The results indicated that respondents had little concept due limited topic. However, they held optimistic towards trash separation classified “can be sold”, “reused”, “exchanged for new one”. Furthermore, respondents’ level positively related education. In contrast, inclination conservation pro-environmental behavior correlates age demographic. paper contributes empirical literature by exploring its