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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.

Issue 223
(Nov/Dec 2026)


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Clothing shopping guides

  • Fast Fashion brands
  • Sustainable Clothing brands
  • Trainers


The magazine includes:

  • score tables rating and comparing the brands
  • Best Buy recommendations
  • which are the ethical brands fighting fast fashion?
  • brands rated on the dumping of waste clothing
  • what are the most sustainable fabrics to choose?
  • secondhand, repair, resale and making your own
  • the workers that make your clothes and trainers
  • trainer brands rated on their use of sustainable materials
  • vegan and PFA-free trainers 
  • Israel-Palestine rating for all companies in the guides
  • what's the progress towards sustainable consumer lifestyles in the UK?
  • a new manifesto for a world where businesses serve people and nature first

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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.

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Next issue...

Issue 224

(Jan/Feb 2027)

  • Supermarkets
  • Ethical Food Shops
  • Cat & Dog Food
  • Colas

Out mid December

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Back issues

  • 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