Green flags: environmentally conscious signs that help you find love

Green flags, as opposed to red ones, are encouraging signs in a potential partner, and here green means being environmentally conscious rather than merely attractive. A survey of 1,000 people, commissioned by Faustino Wines, found 80% of gen Zs said shared environmental values were as important as physical compatibility.

Car-sharing, wearing patchwork clothes (signifying mending rather than throwing away) and carrying reusable coffee cups all came up as signs of environmentally virtuous behaviour. Seventy percent of millennials also called eco-consciousness a green flag, and 40% of 25- to 40-year-olds said they would turn down a first or second date with someone who was not environmentally conscious.

Data from Bumble has suggested that, with more and more people worrying about the future of the planet, the way we’re dating is changing; "green dating" ideas include a walk in the park.

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