Ethical Consumer Magazine
Ethical Consumer Magazine is an indispensable read for any independent thinker.
Each issue features detailed product 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 189 (March/April 2021)
Shopping guides:
- Electricity & gas Suppliers
- Heat Pumps
- Solar Thermal
- Solar PV
The magazine includes:
- score tables rating and comparing the brands
- Best Buy recommendations
- which binoculars are linked to hunting and the military?
- the best green tariffs
- spotlight on energy companies and damaging projects
- grants and payments for renewable energy
- why you should buy a heat pump
- which companies fund the arms used in the war on Yemen
- the state of the UK ethical market
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Ethical Consumer magazine is printed on chlorine-free, 100% post-consumer waste paper sourced from Paperback. It is printed locally by Rap Spiderweb using vegetable-based inks. Our envelopes are also 100% post-consumer recycled paper.
Back issues
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Issue 188
Shopping guides: Chocolate, Perfume & Aftershave, Fruit Juice, Soft Drinks
Feature: How to get Big Tech to pay taxes to help pandemic-hit society
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Issue 187
Shopping guides: Mortgages, Ethical Pensions, Home Insurance, Car Insurance, Accounts for small businesses
Feature: Which consumer companies are funding Donald Trump?
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Issue 186
Shopping guides: Current Accounts, Savings Accounts, Ethical Investment Funds
Feature: Facebook advertisers' boycott
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Issue 185
Shopping guides: Video Conferencing, Ethical Online Retailers, Shoes, Trainers
Feature: Why big tech must pay their fair share of tax to help post-COVID societies
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Issue 184
Shopping guides: Soap, Shower gel, Shampoo, Sunscreen
Feature: How is Covid-19 affecting workers' right?
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Issue 183
Shopping guides: Plant milk, Vegan cheese, Dairy milk, Bananas
Feature: How bad is meat and dairy for the climate?
Plus, dairy cheese and milk vs plant cheese and milk
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Issue 182
Product guides: Batteries, Broadband, Cameras, TVs, Email Providers, Subscription TV
Feature: We update our list of oppressive regimes
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Issue 181
Product guides: Mobile Phones, Mobile phone networks, Laptops, 2-in-1s, Desktop computers
Feature: Which brands are linked to the Amazon fires
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Issue 180
Product guides: High St Clothes Shops, Ethical Clothes Shops, Jeans
Feature: Ethical Consumer is 30 years old!
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Issue 179
Product guides: Over-the-counter Medicines, Toilet Paper, Menstrual Products, Nappies.
Feature: Should we boycott Boots The Chemist?
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Issue 178
Product guides: Supermarkets, Cat & Dog Food, Olive Oil, Coconut Oil, Rapeseed & Sunflower Oil, Paint
Feature: Electricity and gas revisited
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Issue 177
Product guides: Meat Alternatives, Furniture Shops, Coffee Makers, Innovative Finance ISAs
Feature: The plight of the migrant workers in southern Spain who grow veg for supermarkets
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Issue 176
Tea & Coffee special: Ground coffee & beans, Instant coffee, Pods for coffee machines, Coffee Shops, Tea, Herbal, fruit & rooibos tea
Features: counting the cost of disposable coffee cups and plastic in teabags
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Issue 175
Alternatives to Amazon guides: Ethical online retailers, Book retailers, Tablets and e-readers, Streaming services
Features: Online shopping vs the high street, our 2018 manifesto
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Issue 174
Transport Special: Guides to Bicycles & Electric bikes, Cars, pure electric cars & plug-in hybrids.
Plus, guide to Restaurants
Features: What is a regenerative business? Plus, Badger cull campaign latest
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Issue 173
Palm Oil Special
Product Guides to: Chocolate, Biscuits, Margarine, Spreads & Butter, Bread
Features: Lush Spring Prize, Our new tax havens list