to start off I wan to recommend the YoutTuber, shelbizleee. She is all for a more sustaibable lifestyle and has many videos on how everyone can do their part to improve the environment, and she also lists a few hings to keep an eye out for.
This is the link to her YouTube channel
If you are a beginner, here are a few of the basics but must-haves to a more sustainable lifestyle!
But being eco-friendly goes deeper than not using plastic straws. We can also be harming the environment, by buying things. Everything needs energy to be made, and if we buy things that we do not need it is harming the environment. Because as shelbizleee put it: We are voting with our dollar, which mean, when we buy something we are indicating that we want more of this product. So it is important (but also a hard task) to support sustainable brands, that have changed their manufacturing processes to be more environmentally friendly, whenever we can. But you do need to be careful with which brands you trust, because there is such a thing as greenwashing, which is when a brand makes you think that it is sustainable (maybe by having a name that sounds like it is good for the planet or saying that it has made changes), but it has no certifications of being eco-friendly and it just wants to seem sustainable so that more people will buy it. more people will buy this, because it makes them feel like they are doing something good for the environment and takes away the guilt that they feel when they buy something tha is not good for the environmenr e the research comes in. But here a few brands, that I know to be using sustainable practices: