UI Youth Environmental Action (UI YEA) has been an annual event since 2012. This year, a decade of UI YEA is ready to contribute more for a better environment. Economic activities nowadays still use the concept of take-make-dispose. Every year, more than 100 billion tons of natural resources are processed into a product. Most resources for economic activity come from resources extracted from the Earth: both finite (minerals, ores and fossil fuels) and renewable (biomass). Both have a very big impact on the landfill of waste in everyday life and do not rule out that in the long term, it will cause limited land, landfill, and limited natural resources.

A more effective concept transition is needed in order to achieve one of the values of the Sustainable Development Goals, that is number 12. Thus, the concept of value preservation and resource optimization is needed by presenting the concept of a circular economy. Therefore, The 11th UI Youth Environmental Action has brought the theme of "Unlocking The Circular Economy Potential For A Global Sustainable Future". This theme was chosen because the concept of a circular economy can create a more sustainable future that allows the environment to protect the available resources from the negative effects of industrial waste in the present and in the future."