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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.

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Issue 190

(May/June 2021)

Shopping Guides to: Fridges, Cookers, Vacuum cleaners, Beer

Published April

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