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Ethical Consumer Magazine

Ethical Consumer Magazine is an indispensable read for any independent thinker.

Each issue features detailed shopping guides, news of ethical products and campaigns, in-depth features, opinion, comment, boycott updates, readers' letters, and much more. Discover the truth behind the products we buy and the companies we buy them from.

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Issue 208 (May/June 2024)

 

Shopping guides:

  • Outdoor Clothing
  • Shoes 
  • Trainers
  • Sportswear

 

The magazine includes:

  • score tables rating and comparing the brands
  • Best Buy recommendations
  • get to know Ethical Consumer - a few facts and stats
  • what outdoor brands are still using toxic 'forever chemicals'?
  • How do vegan synthetics compare to leather for footwear
  • workers' rights in the footwear industry
  • should you buy polyester sportswear?
  • Brands to buy from if you are boycotting Israeli apartheid

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Ethical Consumer magazine is printed on chlorine-free, 100% post-consumer waste paper. It is printed by Deltor in Cornwall using vegetable-based inks. Our envelopes are also 100% post-consumer recycled paper.

Back issues

  • Issue 159

    Cover of back issue Issue 159

    Product guides: Televisions, Paid-for TV, Cameras

    Features: The links between binocular companies and hunting for sport, Fighting conflict minerals in electronics

  • Issue 158

    Cover of back issue Issue 158

    Product guides: Clothes Shops, Jeans, Waterproof jackets

    Features: Synthetic biology

    Corporate lobbying at the COP21 climate summit

  • Issue 157

    Cover of back issue Issue 157

    Product guides: Cat & Dog food, Instant & Ground Coffee, Perfume & Aftershave

    Features: Amazon's tax turnaround? Ethical charity sponsorship and climate change