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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 199 (Nov/Dec 2022)

Shopping guides:

  • Laptops
  • Mobile Phones
  • Mobile Phone Networks
  • Broadband

The magazine includes:

  • score tables rating and comparing the brands
  • Best Buy recommendations
  • the conflict minerals in your laptops and phones
  • is Fairphone still the most ethical phone?
  • is there a Fairlaptop?
  • working conditions in the electronics industry
  • buying refurbished and second-hand
  • the carbon cost of your devices
  • is your laptop linked to the military?
  • which networks and broadband are run by co-ops?
  • what progress have we made towards sustainable consumer lifestyles in the UK?
  • the latest boycott news

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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 200

(Jan/Feb 2023)

  • Current Accounts
  • Savings Accounts
  • Mortgages
  • Fossil-free investment funds

Out mid December

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Back issues

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    Product Guides: Bananas, Baked Beans, Supermarkets, Tinned Tuna

    Features: How to boycott Trump

  • Issue 165

    Cover of back issue Issue 165

    Product Guides: Shampoo, Toothpaste, Make-up, Laundry Detergent

    Features: The growth of the ethical market, Phasing out the for-profit corporation

  • Issue 164

    Cover of back issue Issue 164

    Product Guides: Batteries, Bookshops, Mobile Phone Networks, Razors & Shavers

    Features: What's wrong with the NFU?

  • Issue 163

    Cover of back issue Issue 163

    Product Guides: Laptops & Hybrids, Mobile phones, Tablets & E-readers

    Features: Boycott Brexit, Animal welfare in Japan

  • Issue 162

    Cover of back issue Issue 162

    Product Guides: Shoes, Trainers, Walking Boots, Sportswear

    Features: How can we challenge Amazon's monopoly power?

  • Issue 161

    Cover of back issue Issue 161

    Product Guides: Current & Savings Accounts, Mortgages, Pensions, Cash ISAs, Fossil-free Funds

  • Issue 160

    Cover of back issue Issue 160

    Product Guides: Meat-free sausages & burgers, Rice, Cooking Oil, Supermarkets

    Features: Veg box schemes

  • 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