The research aimed to determine the degree of knowledge of the rural youth respondents and the performance degree of their responsibility towards the problem of environmental pollution, and to identify the problems that hinder them from carrying out that responsibility and their proposals to overcome them. The research was conducted on 383 rural youth respondents in Zagazig district in Sharkia Governorate, and data were collected through a questionnaire during July and August 2023. After that, data have been discharged and analyzed using appropriate statistical methods. The results showed that: the vast majority of respondents (97.7%) have high knowledge of their social responsibility towards the problem of environmental pollution, and that nearly half of the respondents (49.1%) have a medium level of carrying out their social responsibility towards the problem of environmental pollution. There was a significant relationship between some independent variables of the respondents and the degree to which they performed their responsibility towards the problem of environmental pollution. Among the most important problems that hinder rural youth from carrying out their social responsibility: are living pressures and economic conditions. The most important suggestions of the respondents to overcome the problems that hinder them from carrying out their social responsibility were: providing more job opportunities and activating the role of the media in raising youth awareness of social responsibility.